Re: [EXT] RE using AI minutes

Hi Everyone

As someone that’s Hard of Hearing and autistic, I’m often stuck scribing because I really know how to manage meetings but I have auditory processing issues and my autistic brain wants to capture more details than what’s really needed, scribing is extremely taxing.

I do use AI for meeting summaries and edit where I can but I let others know that it may not be 100% accurate and to edit the minutes or correct whenever they can.

Due to auditory lag I’m not able to catch everything.

It may also be helpful to stick to agendas when you can and if a side conversation is taking over the purpose of the call, then you need to say “let’s take this offline or the next call”. I’m often the person that needs to be told this, but it’s important to keep on track.

My two cents


Carrie Hall
Carrie.hall@sap.com

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On Mar 12, 2025, at 9:01 AM, Jennifer Strickland <jstrickland@mitre.org> wrote:


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.