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Michel Bouman, AI Powered Workplace Lead EMEA, India and SEA - Teams Engineering at Microsoft, shares a deep dive into Microsoft Scout, the new desktop AI autopilot that acts on your behalf around the clock.

• What Microsoft Scout is, how it evolved from Project Lobster, and how it differs from Copilot Chat and Copilot Cowork

• How Michel onboarded a personal agent called Red to manage email triage, calendar scheduling, and complex multi-step reporting tasks

• Real-world autonomous workflows including expense filing, booking appointments, and even monitoring EV battery charge for road trips

• Agent-to-agent orchestration in practice and how teams share skills and automations across their agents

• The security model behind Scout, including resistance to prompt injection and impersonation safeguards

• The psychology of working alongside AI agents, why treating them as human can be a risk, and Michel's upcoming book "When Your Next New Hire Isn't Human"

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