Meet Asana's new 'AI Teammates,' designed to collaborate with you

"More AI agents have arrived! This time, they're coming to project management platform Asana: a suite of helpers the company says are designed to collaborate with human workers. Also: Your coworkers are sick of your AI workslop 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."

""Work isn't done in isolation -- it's collaborative and highly nuanced," company CEO Dan Rogers said in a statement. "Agents need access to the operational framework and workflows that underpin how teams actually work." The new agents can adapt to the specific needs of the teams they're collaborating with, according to Asana. They could support a team of marketers, for example, by drafting campaign briefs or comparing finalized marketing materials with brand guidelines. Software engineers, on the other hand, might deploy the agents to assess reports of buggy code."

"Like many other companies, Asana positioned the agents as providing a measure of automated support within organizations, rather than being meant to fully replace teams themselves. 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."

Asana launched AI Teammates that can access an organization's Asana Work Graph to view team objectives and project progress. The agents adapt to specific team needs and can draft marketing briefs, compare materials to brand guidelines, or assess reports of buggy code for engineers. Asana positions the agents as automated support rather than replacements for human teams. A Stanford study indicates many professionals accept AI collaboration when limited to routine, low-stakes work. The agents can perform multistep tasks with limited oversight, collaborate with other agents, and access external apps, raising autonomy and safety concerns.

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