I recently installed Gem for OneNote on my Thinkpad (Windows 10), not sure how familar everyone is with Gem but its an add-in to improve usability for OneNote - the version that comes with the Microsoft office package you pay for. I did some digging and I didn't see any red flags about Gem security stuff before I installed it. I bought the license, installed Gem, and then needed to restart my computer. After restarting, I opened OneNote to continue using using, about a minute into using it a window popped up for me to update/install "Intel Management Engine", the install window just popped up on its own (I didn't go through my software updates in system settings or anything). I stopped and did some searching around on the internet and got mixed review about if the Intel Management Engine was safe or not. I deicide not to go install it, clicked cancel and figured if it was absolutely necessary/safe I would get another pop-up about it. So my questions are:
1. So is "Intel Management Engine" safe?
2. Should I have installed it?
3. Should I now be worried about Gem too?
It just seemed really weird with the timing of adding something new to my laptop. To the best of my knowledge I've never got a pop up window like that for a software or my laptop without prompting it. I don't know a lot about computer security.