Copilot Chat in Outlook in Microsoft Copilot: what does this AI read, and can you turn it off?

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What the AI does

Two vendor statements

• Summarize “Summarize my emails from the last week related to Project Alpine.” [1]
• Analyze “This lets users do things like ask questions about their inbox, prioritize and triage their emails, or prepare for upcoming meetings when using Copilot Chat in Outlook.” [3]

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Model

Not yet verified

What it reads

Two vendor statements

• Email, Meetings, Other data “users can ask questions across supported content, such as emails, calendar items, meetings, chats, and a bounded set of files and related content.” [1]
• Email, Meetings, Documents “The accessible user data includes their emails, calendar, meetings, chats, and files limited to the following boundaries:” [3]

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Where the data goes

Not yet verified “EU traffic stays within the EU Data Boundary, while worldwide traffic can be sent to the EU and other countries or regions for LLM processing.” [3] dated copy

Trains on your data

No “Copilot Chat does not use your data to train foundation models.” [3] dated copy

On by default

Not yet verified

Can be turned off

Yes “This setting blocks Copilot in the Microsoft Copilot app, Teams, Outlook, and Copilot Chat on the web for all users.” “Blocking Copilot through Integrated Apps is a tenant-wide control that you can scope to specific users or groups, including licensed users.” [2] dated copy

Billing

Included in the license “Using Copilot Chat doesn't require a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.” [1] dated copy

Feature type

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Frameworks the catalog links to it

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