Skill sources and AI transparency

How AI identifies your skills 

Skills added by AI are based on your role and the work you are currently doing using Microsoft 365 apps and services. 

• Microsoft doesn’t see any of your data that is used to identify your skills or the names of the skills that AI adds for you.

• No information about the data used to identify your skills is visible to others.

• The data that AI uses to identify your skills might include the following. This is an illustrative list and can evolve based on the scope of the AI models:

  • Your Microsoft 365 profile information such as role, job title, and function.

  • Titles and summaries of documents you work on in Microsoft 365 apps.

  • The subject line of emails in your Microsoft 365 mailbox.

  • Summaries and transcripts of Teams meetings you attend.

  • Key phrases extracted for you based on words that appear most commonly in your content across Microsoft 365 applications.

  • Job titles of your most frequent work contacts at your organization.

Skills imported by your organization 

You might be asked to confirm skills that were imported for you. This could be skills from another system your organization uses or skills that your organization leaders suggested for you.

We are unable to know if you've previously seen or confirmed these skills in other systems. Because of this, we give you the option to confirm imported skills and separately manage sharing them.

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