post<\/a>. \u201cFor example, after connecting a third-party service to a meeting, some users have found that its bot continues joining future meetings automatically.\u201d<\/p>\nAjam thinks bots butting into meetings that include discussion of sensitive matters is a potential security and privacy problem. Your correspondent has personal experience of this when transcription bots add themselves to meetings conducted under non-disclosure agreements.<\/p>\n
Microsoft has therefore built tech that sees Teams require a human to check a bot\u2019s ID in the \u201clobby\u201d where guests wait before a meeting. If a human rates a bot as worthy of coming inside, it gets to join the meeting.<\/p>\n
The software giant says it\u2019s \u201cstrengthened Teams’ ability to distinguish between bots and human participants as they join a meeting\u201d by using \u201ca combination of behavioral and infrastructure signals to identify bots with a higher degree of accuracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not a guarantee that Teams will detect all bots, but Microsoft\u2019s tech requires multiple clicks to let a bot attend a meeting. \u201cAdmitting a bot should be a deliberate decision, not something that happens by mistake,\u201d Ajam wrote.<\/p>\n
Some users want bots to attend a meeting. Your correspondent prefers a third-party transcription-bot to Microsoft\u2019s own.<\/p>\n
The software giant recognizes that and plans to add \u201ca registration path for independent software vendors (ISVs) that build meeting experiences for Microsoft Teams.\u201d<\/p>\n
That path will mean bot-builders will be able to register with Microsoft and include a self-identification marker in their join requests. \u201cWhen Teams recognizes that marker, it can identify the bot as a known participant,\u201d Ajam wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re currently working with a limited set of ISVs to preview this capability and validate the experience before broader availability,\u201d she added, before promising more detail about registrations soon.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s peril in this plan for Microsoft, which could make itself an arbiter of what constitutes a good bot worthy of admission to Teams.<\/p>\n
Just like bouncers do in real life, often to the chagrin of plain-looking revelers.<\/p>\n
Microsoft has started rollout of its bot-bouncer. Once it\u2019s in place, the software behemoth will retire the CAPTCHAs it currently uses to put bots in their place. \u00ae<\/p>\n
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