I showed up at a meeting a few months ago that had a full RSVP list, but only three people showed up. Everyone else had sent an AI note taker.
Obviously, this meant there wasn’t really a meeting to take notes on. There was no one there.
This is an incredible story. Extremely well written deep dive into an entire generation captured by generative AI. Even professors are using AI to grade AI written papers.
Wild.
May 7, 2025 16:53Afterward, I couldn’t stop thinking about how sending AI in your place means that the “attendee” has given up the capacity to actually shape the conversation.
At best, it’s like sitting there quietly. Treating a meeting more like a lecture where you’ll get your marching orders at the end.
The meeting was about Title IX and gender equity on college campuses.
It isn’t lost on me that the people who sent in AI are the exact same people we most need to be thinking critically about what the federal government (and their supervisors) are asking them to do right now.
I helped a faculty member run a virtual course lately and spent time in every lecture kicking out AI note takers. If any of them had reached out for accessibility assistance, I would’ve moved a mountain. But none did. Still mad about it.
They’re relentless, aren’t they? It was so disruptive! There was one AI notetaker that kept trying to get back into the meeting every couple of minutes.
Argh!!!
