Microsoft Teams has a slightly creepy new feature which will watch and listen to your meetings — but thankfully…

• Microsoft Teams reveals more on new Facilitator AI tol
• Facilitator will monitor your Teams meetings and act as a manager and assistant
• It can help fill in knowledge gaps, but raises concern over privacy

Microsoft Teams is set to roll out Facilitator, a new AI-powered tool which will look to help better manage your calls, and fill in any potential knowledge gaps which pop up during a meeting.

However, in order to do so, the tool will need to be activated to listen and watch all of your meetings, so it knows when to interfere and chip in.

This has already led some observers to worry about the tool's privacy and security limits, but Microsoft says the tool will be turned off by default, meaning users will actively have to switch it on.

Bots in Teams

“We are introducing a new Microsoft Teams Facilitator capability that proactively detects and resolves...

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