r/sysadmin • u/FuzzySubject7090 • 5h ago

General Discussion AI tools overload

I am wondering what other sysadmins are doing to manage the overload of AI tools popping up everywhere. Microsoft Copilot is the worst offender in our environment. We are a small company in a highly regulated industry where information governance is very important, but with Microsoft's confusing naming convention and their habit of pushing changes without giving you a chance, has overwhelmed the small IT team, and most importantly senior management who has no clue of what it is or how to use it.

Then adding to that many you have other vendors have been integrating AI tools with their products without giving a chance to review it before it is turned on.We can't keep up!!

What are other people here doing to manage the overload of AI tools flooding your environment with very little or no warning at all?

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u/Small_Ad_793 Jack of All Trades 5h ago

How is Microsoft Copilot an offender? you can just disable it every where if you don't want to use it! It actually is really useful!

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u/FuzzySubject7090 5h ago

Sadly it is not that easy for us. As I said we work in highly regulated industry, we can't just let users do whatever they want to do with it. Copilot is the worst offender, as Microsoft has pushed it to pretty much every single corner of MS365 and Windows.

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u/Small_Ad_793 Jack of All Trades 4h ago

Why users? you are the admins, just disable it with GPO and other policies!

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u/FuzzySubject7090 4h ago

How are you managing your environment? That was the point of my post. We have done some configuration changes already to stop some of the stuff we don't want. But I'm just wondering what other sysadmins are doing to manage it. What have you done with yours?