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Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
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Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#52Is this happening for EU users?
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#53> Instead of letting an agent act directly as you, Windows spins up this extra workspace, gives it limited access (like specific folders such as Documents or Desktop), and keeps its actions isolated and auditable. > Each agent can have its own workspace and access rules, so what one agent can see or do doesn’t automatically apply to others, and you stay in control of what they’re allowed to touch. This actually sound…
It's similar to UAC - a good and important protection, but fundamentally if you're letting code run with access to your plain old non-administrator documents that's where the biggest data threats are.
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#54> Instead of letting an agent act directly as you, Windows spins up this extra workspace, gives it limited access (like specific folders such as Documents or Desktop), and keeps its actions isolated and auditable. > Each agent can have its own workspace and access rules, so what one agent can see or do doesn’t automatically apply to others, and you stay in control of what they’re allowed to touch. This actually sound…
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#55Mmh, I've always wanted my gaming PC to run a useless background agent to eat up CPU cycles that could have been used for my game. Oh well, if I didn't want that, I could just consider using a Steam Machine, which Valve just announced.
Hey, that's not fair, won't this eat up GPU cycles? ;)
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#56Mmh, I've always wanted my gaming PC to run a useless background agent to eat up CPU cycles that could have been used for my game. Oh well, if I didn't want that, I could just consider using a Steam Machine, which Valve just announced.
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#57It has Settings -> AI components tab. It has "There are no AI components currently installed".
I will let it stay this way till i need it.
I like AI, but only when i control what it does.
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#58I could not get into the article, but the wayback machine can https://web.archive.org/web/20251118002918/https://www.windo... If people do not want this spyware, we all here know what OS they can move to :)
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#59I can't tell you how mutch I don't want this! I know there will be some smart arse out there saying "Just install Linux" Pleas don't I have to use a screenreader called NVDA to read the screen to me as I am blind. There is a screen reader in Linux but it just is not that good. If it was better then I would think about it. I have tried!
Re: Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
#60Mmh, I've always wanted my gaming PC to run a useless background agent to eat up CPU cycles that could have been used for my game. Oh well, if I didn't want that, I could just consider using a Steam Machine, which Valve just announced.
Isn't this opt-in? How does this hurt you?