A bot's name in the participant list is not an introduction. Early in a case against Otter, a federal court declined to assume, under Washington law, that seeing the bot told one plaintiff he was being recorded, though it dismissed his claim on other grounds. Otter denies the core notice claims.
Bots also outstay meetings: one emailed a guest, by his account, hours of a firm's private talk afterward. In Ontario, by the hospital's own report, a former physician's bot joined its rounds and emailed a recipient list of 65 a link to seven patients' details.
- Ask for consent before the bot joins; don't just announce it.
- Someone objects? Switch it off for them.
- Stop the bot at the end; check who gets the summary.
- Unannounced bot? Ask for it to be removed.
One does not seat a stranger because he brought his own chair.
