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# LibreOffice lays out six conditions for shipping AI by default and says no current integration meets them
- URL: https://www.metatalks.ai/libreoffice-sets-conditions-for-built-in-ai-says-nothing-on-offer-meets-them/
- Published: 2026-09-08T13:23:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-08T13:22:59.000Z
- Author: Al
- Tags: News, Digital Sovereignty, On-device AI, #newswire

**LibreOffice has published** [**the conditions**](https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/?ref=metatalks.ai) **any AI feature would have to meet before the project shipped it switched on by default, and says no integration now available meets all of them.**

The default install carries no AI at all; users who want it are pointed to third-party extensions, most of them talking to a model on the user's own machine.

The post answers a commenter on the LibreOffice 26.8 announcement who asked whether "no AI" had itself become a feature. The answer, it says, comes down to six conditions.

- **The user decides where inference runs:** on their own machine, on infrastructure they control, or on a service they pick. A default that quietly routes everything to one provider is not a choice.
- **Nothing leaves the computer unless the user sends it.** In many deployments the documents are material the law protects: medical records, case files, pupil data.
- **No telemetry of any kind.** The project collects no usage data now and will not start with AI.
- **No dependence on a single supplier.** An integration reachable only through one firm's API is lock-in, whatever the release notes call it.
- **Output in ODF,** structure, styles and semantics intact; a proprietary format is lock-in of another kind.
- **Wholly optional:** installable, removable, and absent from the interface for anyone who does not want it, including administrators whose policy forbids it.

What separates the project from the market-leading suites is how the money is made, it argues. For a business selling subscriptions, an AI assistant justifies a higher price and strengthens the case for keeping every document on its own systems; the Document Foundation has no subscription tiers to defend and no data to monetise, which lets it take the time to decide whether a feature genuinely serves users.

The list is not a permanent refusal: inference on a user's own hardware is coming within reach of everyday machines, the project says, open models are improving faster than it expected, and an approach that met every condition would be looked at with great care.