Zoom AI Companion at U-M

This article provides information on Zoom AI Companion features and their availability in the U-M Zoom instance.

Environment

U-M Zoom

Issue

Is Zoom AI Companion and its associated features available in U-M Zoom?

Resolution

Zoom AI Companion is available in U-M Zoom for meetings. It is approved for use with some types of sensitive data (including PHI).

The features available include:

• In-Meeting Questions
• Meeting Summary
• Smart Recording

Note: The Zoom AI Companion features are not available for U-M Zoom Phone or other Zoom products U-M doesn't offer, like Team Chat and Whiteboard. AI Companion Meeting Summary and Smart Recording features are available in U-M Zoom Rooms; In-Meeting Questions are currently unavailable.

If you would like to turn ON or OFF these features:

1. Log in to your U-M Zoom account.
2. Click Settings from the left navigation.
3. Click the AI Companion tab at the top.
4. Toggle the "Meeting Summary with AI Companion," "Allow users to ask AI Companion questions about the meeting," and "Smart Recording with AI Companion" options ON or OFF.

You can adjust granular settings for each feature after toggling them on. Refer to each feature's Zoom documentation page for more details (linked above).

Important notes

General

• Only meeting hosts can manage AI settings for the meetings they host.
• Participants can't turn the AI settings on/off within specific meetings of which they are not the host.
• Participants can request that the host turn off AI features for the meeting. The host will receive a request notification that they can approve or deny. If they deny the request, the participant will receive a notification that it has been denied.
• Participants who do not want to attend a meeting with AI features enabled will have to leave the meeting.

In-Meeting Questions

The In-Meeting Questions feature is OFF by default. You will need to enable the feature in your U-M Zoom account settings following the instructions above.

Meeting Summary

• The Meeting Summary feature is ON by default. However, you have to manually enable it on a meeting-by-meeting basis using the AI Companion button in the meeting window.
• The ability to include the full meeting summary text in the after-meeting email is turned OFF and locked within U-M Zoom. This is to ensure sensitive data is not sent to U-M Google. You cannot turn this ability on.
• If you share a meeting summary with an external (non-UM) participant, they cannot access the meeting summary using the link Zoom sends them via email. Zoom requires participants to authenticate via U-M Weblogin to view meeting summaries, and because they are not a U-M Zoom user, they cannot access it.
  • The workaround is to copy the meeting summary text from Zoom and paste it into a document you can send them separately.
• Similar to cloud recordings, meeting summaries are retained for 150 days before they are sent to your trash. After 30 days in the trash, they are permanently deleted.
  • At this time, there is no method for exporting a meeting summary. Users who are seeking long-term retention of a meeting summary should copy/paste the contents into a document.
• Participants joining the meeting ad hoc (through the in-meeting contact invitation or sharing the join link) will not receive the summary, as they were not on the original invitee list. You will need to share it with them manually.

Smart Recording

The Smart Recording feature is ON by default. Granular customization settings are all OFF by default, but you can turn them on by going to your U-M Zoom account settings and following the instructions above.

Note that when last reviewed by U-M, the Smart Recording web interface presented several accessibility issues that may make the tool unusable for people who rely on accessibility features. Zoom has been notified of the issues, and this article will be updated when fixes are implemented and verified.

Zoom's statement on data privacy/usage

• "Zoom does not use any customer audio, video, chat, screen sharing, attachments or other communications-like content (such as poll results, whiteboard and reactions) to train Zoom’s AI models... Learn more about how Zoom uses data to provide Zoom AI Companion features, or view the Zoom AI Companion Security and Privacy Whitepaper."
• The use of videoconferencing data for the purposes outlined above is governed through several mechanisms, including the service provider agreements with the University of Michigan, the service providers’ privacy policies, and SPG 601.11 - Privacy and the Need to Monitor and Access Records.
  • Learn more on the U-M ViziBlue website.

Additional Information

• Zoom changed the product name from Zoom IQ to Zoom AI Companion in 2023.
• The Smart Recording feature has been available in U-M Zoom since October 2022.

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