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title: "Smart Conversation Control & AI Response Management"
description: "A comprehensive suite of conversation management tools that gives admins full control over AI behavior — enabling manual override, blocking unwanted auto-responses, and ensuring seamless human-AI collaboration within the dashboard."
language: en
canonical: https://mrailabs.com/docs/en/product-updates/historical-release-1/
published: 2026-10-24T01:38:19.785293
last_verified: 2026-10-24T01:38:19.785293
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# Smart Conversation Control & AI Response Management
## Smart Conversation Control & AI Response Management

A comprehensive suite of conversation management tools that gives admins full control over AI behavior — enabling manual override, blocking unwanted auto-responses, and ensuring seamless human-AI collaboration within the dashboard.

## Highlights

- Manual reply window: agents can respond to customers within a 24-hour window, temporarily pausing AI responses
- AI echo prevention: eliminates duplicate or mirrored AI responses to ensure natural conversation flow
- Blocked messages list: define specific messages or keywords that the AI is strictly prohibited from responding to
- Customer-level AI restriction: certain customers require manager approval before any AI or agent reply is sent
- AI image understanding: the AI can now read, analyze, and intelligently respond to image messages
- Manager-to-customer direct messaging: managers can communicate with customers directly through the dashboard interface
- Auto-pause AI on manager reply: when a manager responds via the dashboard, AI responses are automatically paused for a configurable duration

## Related guides

- [Mr. AI updates and release history](https://mrailabs.com/docs/en/settings-and-usage/version-history-and-release-notes/): Discover meaningful Mr. AI improvements, understand what they let you do and find the current guides for each capability.
- [Mobile UI Enhancements & Rich Media Support](https://mrailabs.com/docs/en/product-updates/historical-release-3/): A focused UI/UX upgrade for mobile users, introducing rich media rendering, smart notification support, and clearer visual distinction between team and AI responses — creating a more polished and intuitive dashboard experience.
- [Mr. AI v2.4.0 — Connected Systems and tools for current business data](https://mrailabs.com/docs/en/product-updates/release-2-4-0/): Connect the business systems your employee needs so a conversation can use permitted, current information instead of relying only on stored explanations.
- [Mr. AI v2.12.0 — A lighter, clearer and easier interface](https://mrailabs.com/docs/en/product-updates/release-2-12-0/): Mr. AI now opens in a clean light appearance, with easier-to-read text and better organized Catalog, customer and conversation pages.