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TL;DR
- Internal documents show that Microsoft wants to ‘make people addicted’ to its new Scout AI assistant.
- Scout is an agentic tool that can complete various tasks on your behalf.
- This language comes amid heightened scrutiny over AI dependency.
People have grown increasingly reliant on AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Gemini. In fact, it’s not uncommon to hear about people being glued to their AI chatbots for even the most mundane reasons. Now, it turns out that addiction is a very deliberate goal for one major company’s AI assistant.
Microsoft has just announced Scout, a new agentic AI assistant powered by OpenClaw. However, internal documents uncovered by 404 Media show that the company explicitly wants to “make people addicted” to the service.
