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AI Change Desk | EP024: Delegation Quality Check

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Episode date: 2026-05-06

Format: Wednesday brief

Runtime target: 9-12 minutes

Agents are moving from answering questions to taking assignments. This episode connects Microsoft Copilot Cowork, Microsoft Agent 365, and Anthropic's financial-services agent templates into one operating question: when AI does the assignment, who owns the review?

  • Delegation is becoming embedded inside everyday work surfaces, not just chat windows.
  • Agent control planes help with inventory and governance, but dashboards do not replace workflow ownership.
  • Vertical agents in finance make review, source lineage, evidence, and fallback ownership more urgent.
  • Useful output is not the same as ready output.

    • By Wednesday, May 13, 2026, run a 30-minute delegation-quality review for one AI-assisted workflow. Capture the task, approved users, sources, output artifact, reviewer, evidence, fallback owner, stop condition, and user message.

    • Microsoft: Copilot Cowork: From conversation to action across skills, integrations, and devices - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/05/05/copilot-cowork-from-conversation-to-action-across-skills-integrations-and-devices/
    • Microsoft: Microsoft Agent 365, now generally available, expands capabilities and integrations - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/05/01/microsoft-agent-365-now-generally-available-expands-capabilities-and-integrations/
    • Anthropic: Agents for financial services - https://www.anthropic.com/news/finance-agents
    • Microsoft: Microsoft 365 Copilot, human agency, and the opportunity for every organization - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/05/05/microsoft-365-copilot-human-agency-and-the-opportunity-for-every-organization/
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      Ai Change DeskBy Michael Hanna-Butros Meyering