Microsoft’s Copilot Tasks: Automating Your Life, One Background Task at a Time
Microsoft’s Copilot Tasks promises to automate your daily grind—but how much can you trust an AI that schedules your life in the background?
The AI system, currently in a "research preview" is designed to handle tasks like monitoring apartment listings weekly, scheduling home tours, and summarizing emails.
While it requires explicit permission for actions involving payments or message-sending, its limited tester group and preview status mean users must manually verify results.
Competitors like Google’s Gemini auto-browse feature already offer similar functionality, but Microsoft’s approach emphasizes cloud-based computation and task-specific reports.
Critically, Copilot Tasks’ current limitations—such as restricted access and the need for human oversight—highlight the gap between AI’s promise and its present capabilities. For small business owners and everyday users, this means automation remains a tool to augment, not replace, active decision-making.
