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Alex Simons@Microsoft Security Blog
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Microsoft is heavily invested in the future of AI agents, recognizing their potential to transform various fields. The company believes that in the next 12-24 months, AI agents will evolve from simply responding to requests to proactively identifying problems, suggesting solutions, and carrying context across conversations. This shift will be noticeable as agents begin to independently assist users, rather than just following instructions.
Microsoft is actively developing a robust and sophisticated set of AI agents. A key project in this area is Magentic-UI, an open-source research prototype from Microsoft Research. Magentic-UI is designed as a human-centered AI agent that collaborates with users to complete complex, web-based tasks in real time through a web browser. Unlike fully autonomous systems, Magentic-UI prioritizes a transparent and controllable experience, especially for tasks requiring action-oriented activities beyond simple web searches. Microsoft's release provides a UX that highlights new ideas for agentic interactions.
To support the evolution of AI agents, Microsoft emphasizes the need for evolving identity standards, particularly OAuth, to ensure secure agent access to data and systems. This includes APIs, code repositories, data warehouses, productivity tools, enterprise systems, and sensitive business processes. Furthermore, Microsoft is dogfooding AI dev tools, and using them internally, to refine and improve their functionality. This also provides a UX that highlights new ideas for agentic interactions. The goal is to create AI agents that augment and amplify organizational capabilities, such as marketing agents that can propose, refine, and execute entire digital marketing campaigns, or engineering agents that can autonomously create feature specifications and initiate development and testing.
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Microsoft is actively developing a robust and sophisticated set of AI agents. A key project in this area is Magentic-UI, an open-source research prototype from Microsoft Research. Magentic-UI is designed as a human-centered AI agent that collaborates with users to complete complex, web-based tasks in real time through a web browser. Unlike fully autonomous systems, Magentic-UI prioritizes a transparent and controllable experience, especially for tasks requiring action-oriented activities beyond simple web searches. Microsoft's release provides a UX that highlights new ideas for agentic interactions.
To support the evolution of AI agents, Microsoft emphasizes the need for evolving identity standards, particularly OAuth, to ensure secure agent access to data and systems. This includes APIs, code repositories, data warehouses, productivity tools, enterprise systems, and sensitive business processes. Furthermore, Microsoft is dogfooding AI dev tools, and using them internally, to refine and improve their functionality. This also provides a UX that highlights new ideas for agentic interactions. The goal is to create AI agents that augment and amplify organizational capabilities, such as marketing agents that can propose, refine, and execute entire digital marketing campaigns, or engineering agents that can autonomously create feature specifications and initiate development and testing.
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- Microsoft Security Blog: Our industry needs to continue working together on identity standards for agent access across systems.
- www.microsoft.com: Magentic-UI, new from Microsoft Research, is an open-source research prototype of a human-centered AI agent, designed to work with people to complete complex, web-based tasks in real time over a web browser.
- www.microsoft.com: The autonomous enterprise: How generative AI is reshaping business applications
Classification:
- HashTags: #AI #Microsoft #Agents
- Company: Microsoft
- Target: AI Agents
- Attacker: Microsoft
- Product: Entra
- Feature: Agent Access
- Type: AI
- Severity: Informative