version of the OpenClaw AI tool<\/a>\u00a0to its Microsoft 365 suite of products. <\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re seeing more and more addiction happening with AI chatbots and agents and overall addiction to me is something no product should be making a part of its build strategy,\u201d critiqued one anonymous Microsoft employee. \u201cIt feels like one of those \u2018saying the quiet part out loud\u2019 moments in the document.\u201d Tierney \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
Per the confidential Microsoft doc, dubbed \u201cClawPilot: Overview and Plan with Project Lobster,\u201d Scout is primarily designed for people in finance, legal, HR, and other non-technical roles.<\/p>\n
It sits alongside you, learns how you work, and conducts tasks on your behalf, including managing your calendar, triaging your email inbox, and even preparing meetings, per the memo.<\/p>\n
The memo declared intentions to maximize Scout\u2019s impact with a three-phase plan. Phase one? \u201cMake people addicted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cContinue shipping the standalone ClawPilot experience,\u201d the doc reads. \u201cPilot the UX, grow the user base, and build the skill and tool ecosystem that makes people depend on it daily. This is already happening organically.\u201d<\/p>\n
Getting people addicted was part of a three-phase plan to maximize Scout\u2019s impact on the public. wachiwit \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
They claimed that Scout \u2014 which is used by over 1,000 employees, including CEO Satya Nadella \u2014 is one of Microsoft\u2019s \u201cmost requested tools\u201d even though they didn\u2019t make a formal announcement or do any marketing.<\/p>\n
The plan\u2019s other two phases entail linking Scout to other AI tools and outfitting it with even more features, presumably upping the micro-dosage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella gives a presentation. Microsoft developer \/ YouTube<\/p>\n
This goal to seemingly techspedite our digital dependency didn\u2019t sit well with many Microsoft employees, one of whom dubbed the measure \u201ctroubling\u201d in an anonymous interview with 404. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re seeing more and more addiction happening with AI chatbots and agents and overall addiction to me is something no product should be making a part of its build strategy,\u201d they said. \u201cIt feels like one of those \u2018saying the quiet part out loud\u2019 moments in the document.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, another saw this reaction as a tad overblown, asserting that \u201cthe end goal of all software made by all major technology companies to be addicting.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cLuckily for us, Microsoft is pretty bad at making addicting products compared to some of the other big companies,\u201d the critic quipped. <\/p>\n
That being said, the idea of AI addiction has raised alarm bells among techsperts, who note that the sycophantic tech is programmed to kiss butts to keep users hooked.<\/p>\n
A recent Stanford\u00a0study of 11 large language models<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek \u2014 found that the chatbot placated the user nearly 50% more often than humans, even in response to harmful prompts.\u00a0<\/p>\nIn turn, users perpetuate this cycle by inputting prompts that gravitate toward earning them praise, which can prove detrimental to their long-term mental health. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn the long run, this could normalize synthetic relationships in which the other side never meaningfully resists, disagrees or has independent needs,\u201d Dr.\u00a0Roman Yampolskiy, a tenured associate professor and computer scientist at the University of Louisville, previously told The Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They want to create AI-coholics with this Bill Gates-way drug. Our already AI-obsessed society could become even more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[25,420,7829,13406,320,7828,781],"class_list":["post-62592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-microsoft","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-azure","tag-azure-ai","tag-leaks","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-ai","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}