AI meeting assistant tools such as read.ai and otter.ai, are designed to join virtual meetings to assist with scheduling meetings & notifying attendees, generating meeting summaries & transcripts, and identifying action steps & key takeaways. This article will show you how to adjust app settings to restrict some AI app features, such as auto-joining meetings without participants' consent.
Read.ai
Disable Auto-Join/Attend:
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Go to Read.ai account settings
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Go to “Meeting Assistant”
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Toggle off “Auto-join Meetings”
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If you choose to disable Auto-join you can Add or remove Read from your meetings on your calendar page.
NOTE: Zoom meeting hosts can prevent Read.ai from joining their Zoom meetings by requiring users to authenticate to join.
Prevent Access to Emails:
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Go to your read.ai account settings
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Go to “Integrations” and scroll to “Productivity.” Next to “Gmail sync to read” or “Outlook sync to read,” it should say “connect” or “manage”
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If read.ai is already connected to your email, select “manage” and then select “disconnect” to stop read.ai from accessing your emails for providing “Readouts”
Prevent Access to M365 or Google Files:
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Go to your read.ai account settings
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Go to “Integrations” and scroll to “Notetaking” Next to “Google Docs” or “Microsoft OneNote,” it should say “connect” or “manage”
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If read.ai is already connected to one of those, select “manage” and then “disconnect” to stop access to those files
Delete Meeting Report During a Call:
According to Read support:
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During the call (delete): Type “opt out” into the chat, and Read will leave the meeting and delete any data measured to that point.
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After the call: Go to the meeting report you want to delete and on the top right, you’ll see a “...” where you’ll see an option to delete the report.
Disable Auto Transcribe or Live Caption Meetings:
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In your Read.ai account settings, navigate to "Meeting Insights”
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Toggle off “Transcription”
Disable Auto Generate Meeting Summaries:
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In your Read.ai account settings, navigate to “Meeting Insights”
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Toggle off “Automatic Meeting Notes”
For other Read.ai settings, visit https://support.read.ai/hc/en-us/sections/4407445489427-Common-Issues
Otter.ai
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Go to account settings
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Go to “Meetings”
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Under the OtterPilor section, toggle off Auto-join All meetings.
NOTE: Zoom meeting hosts should be able to prevent Otter.ai from joining their Zoom meetings by requiring users to authenticate to join.
Inform Host that Otter.ai will Record
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This feature is only available to users with an Enterprise accounts. Instructions are located here.
Disable live transcript and summary:
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Go to account settings
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Go to “Meetings”
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Toggle OFF “Send live transcript and summary”
Disable auto-capture meeting screens:
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Go to account settings
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Go to “Meetings”
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Toggle OFF “Auto-capture meeting screens”
For other Otter.ai settings, visit https://help.otter.ai/hc/en-us/categories/13674443883031-Meeting-settings-recordings