Project management hub Asana wants to be your go-to for managing AI

Project management software giant Asana is rolling out what it calls “AI teammates”—bots that can participate in handling and discussing work via Asana’s platform in similar ways to actual humans.  Unlike some AI assistant and copilot products that take direction only from one human user, Asana’s AI teammates are designed to work with multiple humans, similar to how an actual new hire might receive assignments, feedback, and comments from a range of coworkers.   The aim is to offer a set of AI tools that integrate not only with software companies already use, but with the Asana-based workflows they rely on to divvy up and discuss work. So while the bots won’t necessarily replace human employees or potential hires outright, interacting with them through Asana will feel fairly similar to working with a flesh-and-blood colleague. “It is a shared experience, which means you can bring it into a project, and it’ll behave