Technology

Aalia Manie, Webber Wentzel Fusion

“Do you know which country this recording is going to get stored or transferred to?” an interviewee asked. I did not. Most people using AI transcribers couldn't answer that question. Ever since the world normalised online meetings, transcription bots have become the norm. They create major implications for compliance and governance. When an AI transcriber joins a meeting, what are the considerations and risks?

“Friendships grow six times as fast as under the withering blighting influence of the moon of longhand,” wrote Isaac Pitman, the 19th-century inventor of modern shorthand. While knowing shorthand is unlikely to grow your social circle, it has served humans for hundreds of years since Renaissance scribes created faster capturing methods when committing speech to text.