The Document Foundation has taken a deliberate stand against the industry's generative-AI rush: it says it will not add artificial intelligence features to LibreOffice for the foreseeable future — and frames that absence as a feature in its own right.
The position means users' documents stay on their own machines, with no data sent to cloud models or AI providers. In an era when productivity software increasingly ships with AI assistants, copilots and cloud-connected summarizers, LibreOffice is pitching privacy and user control as the differentiator.
The announcement has resonated with users wary of AI data collection, and marks one of the clearest institutional rejections of the “AI in everything” trend from a major open-source project.
