[Openid-specs-ipsie] IPSIE WG and personal AI bots/note takers

[Dean Saxe]

IPSIE WG members,

In the past few years we have seen the rise of AI tools to automate note
taking during meetings.  While many find these tools to be helpful - myself
included in certain scenarios -  they can be quite divisive.  Aaron and I
have been discussing this issue with Mike Leszcz in order to develop
guidance for the IPSIE WG on the use of personal AI bots to take meeting
notes.  In the absence of an OIDF-wide policy on the use of personal AI
bots, individual WGs are able to determine their own rules for how to
handle bots on their WG calls.

During today’s call we discussed this issue and the consensus of the
members on the call was that personal AI bots should not be allowed on WG
calls for the following reasons:


   - Notes taken by humans are generally more complete and capture the
   nuances of a discussion more accurately than an AI notetaker
   - Meeting minutes taken by a note taker are the official record of OIDF
   WG meetings and must accurately represent substantive discussions and any
   decisions made during the meeting
   - Using AI note takers make it impossible to exclude specific
   discussions from the notes, if desired


Moving forward, we will actively exclude AI note takers (e.g. Otter.ai)
from IPSIE WG calls. We will continue to ask for human note takers on all
calls to accurately record the meeting minutes for our official archives.
The chairs expect that there may be exceptional circumstances where we
allow AI note takers in the future.  We will handle these requests
individually if/when they occur.

If you have any questions or concerns about this decision, please let me
know.

Thank you,
-dhs

--
Dean H. Saxe, CIDPRO <https://idpro.org/cidpro/> (he/him)
Principal Engineer
Office of the CTO
Beyond Identity
dean.saxe at beyondidentity.com
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