Re: [EXT] RE using AI minutes

Agree with Hidde’s points.

In addition, I think this discussion surfaces another pain point I’ve observed in our meetings.


  *   Frequently people get to their points by thinking aloud. A scribe doesn’t write down everything that someone might say, since they can go around for 15 minutes before getting to the point.


  *   People can help the human scribes by slowing down, not having their sidebar discussions as happened in Monday’s meeting where much of the discussion happened between two people not facing the microphone, etc.

I sometimes serve as a scribe — despite having a disability that exempts me, and it takes me out for the rest of the day. The AI transcript can help serve as a supplement record as needed.

AGWG members who never scribe but speak a lot in the meetings, it would help to remember that there are humans either scribing or reviewing a transcript. Please consider what you want to say, perhaps write it down before your turn in queue and try to be concise — Yes, I need to do that myself!

Other groups only lightly minute their meetings, some only note discussion items and outcomes.



From: Hidde de Vries <hidde@hiddedevries.nl>
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
To: Gregg Vanderheiden RTF <gregg@raisingthefloor.org>
Cc: Todd Libby <toddlibby@protonmail.com>, Jennifer Strickland <jstrickland@mitre.org>, w3c-waI-gl@w3. org <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, Wendy <wendy.reid@rakuten.com>, Kenneth G. Franqueiro <kfranqueiro@w3.org>
Subject: Re: [EXT] RE using AI minutes
On 12 Mar 2025, at 15: 38, Gregg Vanderheiden RTF <gregg@ raisingthefloor. org> wrote: 1 this topic was raised - to help out those who take notes Do we have indication of specific scribes that they need/want help? I'll say I don't personally,




On 12 Mar 2025, at 15:38, Gregg Vanderheiden RTF <gregg@raisingthefloor.org> wrote:

1   this topic was raised - to help out those who take notes

Do we have indication of specific scribes that they need/want help? I'll say I don't personally, and I reckon I'm not alone.

For me typing is faster than checking for (inevitable) hallucinations/incorrectnesses, because they so often are too subtle or too plausibly presented to catch.

This is how all the  AI vs Human  arguments should go.  With data rather than either overly positive or negative comments

This begs the (philosophical) question of whether all things of value can indeed be reduced to data.