Workplace AI assistants have mostly waited for a prompt before doing anything. A user asks, the tool answers, and the exchange ends there. Microsoft is putting a different kind of agent inside its Office applications, one designed to keep operating in the background once a person stops paying attention. The company introduced Microsoft Scout, calling it the first entry in a category it labels Autopilots. What an Autopilot does Autopilots are always-on agents that run … More → The post Microsoft Scout agent opens a new category of always-on Autopilots appeared first on Help Net Security .