Last week, the company that I work for rolled out Copilot for all Microsoft Office apps. AI does not really help me for the kind of work that I do, so this rea

Last week, the company that I work for rolled out Copilot for all Microsoft Office apps. AI does not really help me for the kind of work that I do, so this really didn't seem like it would affect me much. Except one day I open Outlook and there's this giant-ass honking big "Summarize this thread" bar that they added to Outlook. It's a full inch in height and full width, which means that it takes away valuable space needed by the message list and message pane. All for a single button. I would have preferred they fill that space with ads for Candy Crush, because at least then it would be doing something arguably useful! Further, the company's legal team drafted a list of 11 things you CANNOT use Copilot for. I won't paste them here, but basically it amounts to not being able to use Copilot on anything you wouldn't share with the press or a competitor. I can't actually think of a single employee in the whole company who can follow these rules AND use Copilot effectively for their job. IT says that Microsoft enabled this for everyone using O365 and that they can't turn it off for individual users. So basically I now have this fire-alarm sized button in the middle of the screen on my mail client that I must NEVER click.