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Meet Asana's new 'AI Teammates,' designed to collaborate with you
What they can do, and how Asana is managing the risks of deploying agents.
The AI Teammates, which the company released Thursday, are able to tap into an organization's Asana Work Graph (a kind of matrix of organization-wide project-management data), which gives them an overview of various teams' objectives and progress. A recent study conducted by researchers from Stanford University found that many working professionals are open to collaborating with AI agents, provided that those systems are only deployed to handle routine, low-stakes tasks. Zoom, for example, announced in July that its AI Companion had been upgraded with the agentic ability to pull data from 16 third-party apps, including Salesforce and Google Drive.
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