Microsoft builds a bouncer to keep bots out of Teams meetings
REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); “Bots have begun joining meetings that participants never intended them to attend,” wrote Microsoft product marketing manager Meera Ajam in a Monday post. Your correspondent has personal experience of this when transcription bots add themselves to meetings conducted under non-disclosure agreements.Microsoft has therefore built tech that sees Teams require a human to check a bot’s ID in the “lobby” where guests wait before a meeting. “Admitting a bot should be a deliberate decision, not something that happens by mistake,” Ajam wrote.Some users want bots to attend a meeting.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); “Bots have begun joining meetings that participants never intended them to attend,” wrote Microsoft product marketing manager Meera Ajam in a
- ▪Your correspondent has personal experience of this when transcription bots add themselves to meetings conducted under non-disclosure agreements.Microsoft has therefore built tech that sees Teams require a human to check a bot’s ID in the “l
- ▪“Admitting a bot should be a deliberate decision, not something that happens by mistake,” Ajam wrote.Some users want bots to attend a meeting.
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