Microsoft's Bold Plan: 1M AI Bots to Revolutionize Work

For example, if a company has 100,000 employees, he sees them as using "half a million to a million agents," ranging in tasks from simple email organization to running the "whole procurement process" for a business. He claims Microsoft internally uses millions of agents. This army of bots, with permission to take actions inside a company's software and automate aspects of an employee's workflow, could quickly grow unwieldy to track.

A lack of clear oversight could also open businesses up to security breaches. Agent 365 is a way to manage all your bots, whether those agents were built with Microsoft's tools or through a third-party platform. Agent 365's core feature is a registry of an organization's active agents all in one place, featuring specific identification numbers for each and details about how they are being used by employees.

It's also where you can change the settings for agents and what aspects of a business's software each one has permission to access. The tool includes security measures to scan what every agent is doing in real-time. "As data flows between people, agents, and applications," says Lamanna "It stays protected." As more businesses run pilot programs testing out AI agents, more questions arise about how safe the technology is to implement into core workflows that often contain sensitive data.