- Microsoft Teams reveals more about the new Facilitator AI tol
- Facilitator will monitor your Teams meetings and act as leader and assistant
- It can help fill knowledge gaps, but raises privacy concerns
Microsoft Teams is ready to roll out Facilitator, a new AI-powered tool that will help better manage your calls and fill in any knowledge gaps that pop up during a meeting.
But to do that, the tool needs to be enabled to listen and watch all your encounters so it knows when to interfere and chip in.
This has already caused 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 have to actively turn it on.
Bots in teams
“We’re introducing a new Microsoft Teams Facilitator feature that proactively detects and addresses knowledge gaps during meetings,” noted an update on the company’s admin portal.
“Facilitator can identify when participants ask questions or express uncertainty and retrieve and share relevant answers using web search in the meeting chat.”
The company laid out a ton of possible use cases where Facilitator can come in handy – such as monitoring an agenda in a meeting invitation to help keep everyone on track, and displaying the information in a sidebar.
The facilitator can also start a timer to ensure everyone stays focused on the key items on an agenda, which can be extended, paused or reset depending on the need. Anyone who joins late can ask the tool for a quick overview of what has already been discussed and quickly search for relevant information.
It can also create a document based on a specific topic discussed during a call, help kick-start a new project or brainstorm ideas, helping you manage any action items assigned by capturing details in the Notes app.
For those on the go, Facilitator can also instantly capture, transcribe and organize personalized meeting notes, complete with speaker highlights and actionable summaries, right from your mobile device.
Once a call is completed, the Facilitator can also review all content it generated during the meeting, which can be accessed in a separate summary menu and shared between participants.
Facilitator is now in public preview for select customers — the company added that a Microsoft 365 Copilot license is required to add Facilitator to a meeting or activate it during a meeting. However, any meeting participant (except external participants) can see all updates in real time in Chat and Notes.
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