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AI copilot

Agents & orchestration

An AI copilot is an assistant built into work tools that suggests, drafts or summarises without acting on its own. The human stays in control and validates every result. That is the difference with an AI agent, which can carry out a sequence of actions by itself. Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot are examples.

In practice at Gensai

Choosing between a copilot and an autonomous agent is part of scoping every Gensai project: the right level of intelligence depends on the risk and value of the task.