The US House of Representatives has reportedly set a strict ban on Congressional staffers’ from utilizing Microsoft’s Copilot generative AI assistant. According to a report in Axioss, “The Microsoft Copilot application has been deemed by the Office of Cybersecurity to be a risk to users due to the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services,” the House’s Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor mentioned.

What US Congress order says
“The Microsoft Copilot application has been deemed by the Office of Cybersecurity to be a risk to users due to the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services,” the order mentioned. The steerage additional added that Copilot “will be removed from and blocked on all House Windows devices.”

Incidentally, in June final yr, the House restricted staffers’ use of ChatGPT, permitting restricted use of the paid subscription model whereas banning the free model. For these unaware, Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-based assistant, constructed on prime of expertise from ChatGPT creator OpenAI.

What Microsoft mentioned on the ban
“We recognize that government users have higher security requirements for data. That’s why we announced a roadmap of Microsoft AI tools, like Copilot, that meet federal government security and compliance requirements that we intend to deliver later this year,” a Microsoft spokesperson instructed Reuters.

Several corporations have restricted the usage of AI like ChatGPT for workers
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