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Pilita Clark

When your chatbot makes titanic mistakes

In the right hands, artificial intelligence can clearly be a force for great good. It’s just that I keep coming across people who know how dire it can be in the wrong hands.

People say nothing funny ever happens on LinkedIn and in my experience, people are right.

But the other day, a colleague showed me a post on the site from a man named Chris who said he had started joining online meetings 30 seconds early, all the better to be discreetly recorded by the AI note-taking assistants now used to transcribe virtual meetings.

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Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles.

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