Microsoft has spent the past two and a half years pushing Copilot across Windows, Microsoft 365, and even gaming. But recent changes to the AI assistant's terms say users shouldn't rely on Copilot for important advice—in fact, they should use it only for entertainment. This updated language sits awkwardly alongside Microsoft's marketing, which portrays Copilot as an important tool for improving productivity in work, school, and personal settings.
Spotted by Tom's Hardware, Copilot's updated terms and safety notes state that users must use the tool at their own risk and avoid treating responses as authoritative. This means users should verify Copilot's outputs before acting on them. Microsoft's guidance for law and other regulated industries also explains that Copilot is meant to support professionals, not to take over their judgment. In other words, the company recommends that organizations retain human control rather than relinquish decision-making to generative AI.
All this comes after Microsoft abandoned its plans to introduce Copilot to Windows 11 notifications and settings last month. The idea of smarter, contextual suggestions inside Windows notifications may return later, but not as a tightly integrated Copilot layer across the interface.
Despite promising for a few years now to implement AI pretty much everywhere, the company has scaled back its Copilot goals due to limited use. One Windows 11 Insider Preview Build from January even allows some administrators to uninstall Copilot entirely.
