I’ve seen a couple of posts about this so wanted to demystify. Today, every Muse user gets a free computer in the cloud. It's a real computer, and we’ve designed the security architecture of the Muse Secure VM carefully so you and your Muse can do almost anything you could with a computer sitting under your desk while keeping you and the system safe from threats like prompt injection. We wrote about this at length in our security blog post – https://t.co/7HmiTrzoTd. Activity in the “runtime cell”, which you share with your Muse is unfettered, but sensitive actions are all overseen by the Sentinel, which runs outside of that cell. Similarly, all sensitive secrets - like the passwords you enter into Muse’s secure credential storage - are also stored outside the runtime cell.
The runtime cell gets its own root filesystem (including a full Ubuntu linux image) separate from the host filesystem where your other more sensitive data lives. Because it is isolated from the sensitive stuff that runs on the same box, this means that we can, and do, offer users full visibility and control over the files in the runtime cell. Just as you can when you install Linux on your home computer, you can poke around and see all the files that make the system work - both debian system files and the binaries and data files that implement the parts of Muse which run in the runtime cell.
This was a very deliberate choice - your Muse Secure VM truly is your own computer in the cloud. You can install software in it, write and compile code, use the browser to surf the web: it is your own Linux box that you can operate as you choose with your Muse. Poking around in this computer doesn't give you any privileged access to Meta infrastructure, or to other people's data
If I may geek out a little here for a second… As a kid I loved to take things apart to see how they worked. As a teenager I got into computers and soon found myself drawn to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM and the system registry, later Slackware’s /dev/, /proc/ etc – I could see how the system was laid out and as I explored what DLL files and .so files actually did, I gradually became able to meld the computer to my own will.
We’re really proud to be able to put a real computer in millions of people’s hands with a similar level of transparency. We built a file explorer right into the Library tab of the UI. We want you to be able to see the markdown files Muse writes while it thinks about how to serve you better, and explore the internals of the system if you’d like to.
So, when you ask your Muse to show you its entire filesystem, and receive gigabytes of files you’re seeing the full contents of the runtime cell. It’s yours to explore and enjoy!
If you’re not a geek like me, or simply want to download the data that you personally have created directly with your Muse, we added a feature for that too in Settings > Data controls > Download your agent data.
Re: legal immigration — the biggest “barrier that impedes access to immigration benefits and fair, efficient adjudications of these benefits” is per country limits. Not even a close second. Indian STEM PhDs are BANNED from receiving a GC based solely on their birth country. Fix!
Immigrants make this country stronger and our economy more dynamic. As a first step toward needed comprehensive reform, I urge the Senate to move quickly to pass the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act. The contributions of these workers are critical to America’s future.
Under current law, how long a person waits for a green card is based on where they were born.
That’s not fair, and that’s not right.
Let’s pass the bipartisan Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act and improve our immigration system. https://t.co/zMvLnkAIYy
“When I set my roots in North Dakota, I recognized that while India was where I was born, this was now my home. My sincere hope is to be able to help other members of the community find that same sense of belonging.”
Well said. Let’s get this passed. https://t.co/6Vutb5CBnA
@SenKevinCramer Dear @SenKevinCramer, Thank you for you leadership on common sense fixes that will help America, Americans and tax-paying law-abiding skilled immigrants. We are eager to start our companies in America, and the Fairness bill will allow us to do so. Thank YOU!!
The Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act is about exactly that: fairness.
The long wait for these green cards is a disservice to legal immigrants and to the potential of the American economy. Let’s get this passed. https://t.co/e0dgjnuYfe
My #SOTU guest is @debjyotidwivedy. He’s a an Enterprise Cloud Manager, @NDSU Master’s degree recipient, and Senior Vice President of @immivoice. https://t.co/ofjbeiYimx
Like DACA, border security, and so many other areas, this is an important reform to our immigration system. Congress should stop kicking the can down the road & act now.
Thank you @SenatorLankford & @SenBennetCO for co-sponsoring #S281
Your leadership will shorten the Green Card wait times for the vast majority of high-skilled immigrants in the US, create jobs, boost wages for American workers & stop exploitation of high-Skilled immigrants
Thank you @SenatorBaldwin for your leadership & co-sponsorship of #S281
Your leadership will shorten the Green Card wait times for the vast majority of high-skilled immigrants in the US, create jobs, boost wages for American workers & stop exploitation of high-Skilled immigrants