Project Lobster: Building an AI Assistant with Agency and Memory
Microsoft's Project Lobster is a cloud-based, always-on AI assistant with agency and memory that acts without user babysitting.
“I don't know that people fully grasp what it means to have a personal assistant that is has agency and judgment.”
At Microsoft Build, two builders describe Project Lobster, a cloud-hosted, always-on AI assistant designed to act with agency and judgment on trusted tasks without requiring the user to sit and prompt it. They frame it as a shift beyond current chat-based AI tools and tie it to Microsoft's mission, while flagging security, privacy, and compliance guardrails as high-stakes work in progress.