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> Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert.

I'm sure it's capable of doing those things, but they have it turned off because of the significant risks involved in automatically editing important documents like that.



I suspect this is the case, much like with Apple Intelligence as well. Case in point, see the early Apple notification summaries of text messages. "Mom: That hike killed me!" AI Summary: "Mom died on hike."

All it needs though is a sandbox to execute the action in, and an approval flow for the user to review the changes the agent wants to make, or make revisions. Why does it have to be all or nothing? "Hey Google, schedule a meeting with x for next week when we are both available" "Google: OK, here's a preview of the calendar invite - do you want me to send it, or make changes, or cancel?"


if it's not trustworthy just fork the doc and let people try it and then copy paste back in...

instead I'm just pulling it out to other tools and using markdown import. I'm basically moving away from using google docs because of these issues.




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