The reason is that the U.S. Cybersecurity Office has determinedCopilot ServiceThis poses a risk of leaking internal information of the U.S. House of Representatives to unapproved cloud services, so U.S. House Administrator Catherine Szpindor requires all House members to use PCs with Windows operating systems.Copilot artificial intelligence service must be removed.
A Microsoft spokesperson responded that the company plans to propose guidelines this summer for artificial intelligence application tools, including the Copilot service, to comply with US government security requirements.
However, Microsoft has not yet disclosed specific details of the guidelines, which are expected to be launched in the summer.
In addition to prohibiting the use of Copilot services on PC devices within the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. House of Representatives banned internal staff from using OpenAI's ChatGPT service in June last year to avoid uploading internal information that has not yet been made public to artificial intelligence services, thereby creating potential risks.
To retain more government users, Microsoft, Google, and other industry players have already built proprietary cloud services tailored to government needs. They are expected to provide government-specific AI services in the future, thereby avoiding the use of government agency information for subsequent training. This will also allow government agencies to improve work efficiency through convenient AI services.
