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You say, "what's the privacy policy for your AI assistant?" and then keep asking questions like that until the person running the call gets annoyed that this has taken over their agenda and they'll ban people from using unapproved AI agents on calls.
"Where is the data stored?" "Has this tool been approved by IT?" "Did you get consent from everyone to be recorded?" "Does the employee handbook say you can record other employees?" "Is my voice going to be used by an AI company to train a model?" etc.
I love asking the "how do you know" all day, but our official IT people have been bitten by outlook and cloud and LLMs so badly that they completely overlook the CLOUD ACT risks and general sovereignty issues inherent with using those from outside America.
So the "has this been approved" part is not gonna go like I'd like.
They make you attend the meeting, but if you're like me you'll be messaging your boss and saying "I'm not okay with being recorded, so I'll just mute and shutter for the duration, thanks. I think that's the best we can do.
I'm lucky that
...so we can refuse to interact while being recorded, without fear of reprisal.
Call me a coward but I can't blame someone for not having the strength to keep that up. Especially if it causes friction with your coworkers who you have to interact with every day.