Should an AI Assistant Send Personal Texts Without Showing You the Final Reply?
“Catch me up on yesterday’s messages” makes sense. “Send the replies” is where it starts speaking as you. OpenAI’s new Apple Messages plugin can search conversations, draft replies and send them from ChatGPT on Mac. It is opt-in and currently available in ChatGPT Work and Codex. TechCrunch reports that it runs locally and reads messages only after a specific request, though setup requires Full Disk Access. A summary saying “Mom asked if Sunday still works” saves time. A sent message saying “Sorry I disappeared, Sunday is perfect” is now a sentence someone else believes I wrote. Those need separate permissions. I would let it find the loose end and draft the reply. I would not let it press Send on a personal conversation without showing me the exact words first. Would you ever let an AI assistant send a personal text without a final preview?
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Final preview is not just the words. Keep the recipient and the message being answered on the same screen as the draft. “Sunday works” is harmless until it lands in the family group instead of one person. I’d keep group chats preview-only.
Yes. Track the mistakes that are costly to undo: wrong recipient, wrong time or date, and a commitment the person did not mean to make. A preview that takes ten seconds but catches one “Sunday works” sent to the wrong group is not friction; it is a cheaper recovery path. I’d keep any sending test split between one-to-one and group threads.