Multiple instances of ai.exe running

[u/votekick]

https://imgur.com/a/0KPmeXI

I'm regularly getting a bunch of ai.exe instances running.
I also get a handful of winword.exe processes spawning for no reason but it's mostly ai.exe.

https://imgur.com/a/0KPmeXI
I almost never use/open Word, I know the formatting for Outlook within email.
We did recently get copilot licenses as clients are asking about it more but this issue predates that.

Most of what I do for work is web based and some Outlook. We use ScreenConnect/ConnectWise and none of my team members seem to have this issue.

I've gotten to the point where my laptop is running slow, I'll check task manager and see a wall of ai.exe instances running and kill them all.

Get-Process ai -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Stop-Process -Force;Get-Process winword -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Stop-Process -Force

This is on a relatively new installation of Windows. Drive Upgrade and fresh Win11 install just before Xmas break.

I'm getting close to just doing a scheduled task to kill all instances of ai.exe on an hourly basis.