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There is an awkward moment that is becoming common in meetings, face -to -face or online: someone enters the meeting, opens the laptop and without saying anything activates your Bot of ia To record and transcribe.
The rest is silent, calibrating whether to protest or pretend that nothing happens. Thinking if you have enough hierarchy to raise your voice or if you will pay.
Welcome to the era of normalized corporate surveillance.
As usually happens, Technology has arrived before the rules. IA attendees can record, transcribeanalyze the tone, identify who speaks more, make inferences about us and even suggest answers in real time. But nobody knows what to do with that socially.
Is it bad education to activate a Bot without warning? Where are that data? Who else will know them? What are they going to process with them?
Is The classic paradox of all technological disruption: The tool exists, it works, promises efficiency, but the social norms are three steps behind. As when the mobiles arrived and it took years to decide whether it was acceptable to answer in the cinema or speak in the elevator. With the finish line we are living something similar.
Only This time the risks are greater. Because the Bot Not only record: interpret, analyze, store. You can capture not only what you say, but how you say it, when you doubt, who you are more or less agree. And all that is registered in the other party, but also in servers of companies that already know too much about us.
The solution will not come from technology, but from us. We need to quickly develop a clear label:
- Notify before recording or inviting the Bot.
- Specify what information will be used for.
- Ask if someone feels uncomfortable.
- Normalize company policies that restrict them, at least those of certain types.
If we do not, We will end up normalizing that any conversation can become data to treat Without our consent. And that is not a meeting we want to attend.
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