Preventing 3rd Party AI Tools From Accessing Your Meetings
You can prevent unauthorized third-party AI tools like Otter.AI and Read.AI from joining your Zoom meetings by blocking their domains through your Zoom settings.
Blocking External AI Summary Tools
As a host of a meeting, you may notice that one of your participants is using an AI summary tool (such as Otter.AI or Read.AI) to transcribe and summarize your meeting for their own reference. For security reasons, these tools are not recommended by DoIT. Instead we recommend Zoom's AI Companion for transcription and meeting summaries. To block these external summary tools from being used in your meeting, follow these steps:
- Go to the Zoom Portal
- Sign in using your NetID and Password
- Go to your Settings
- Choose to view Meeting Settings
- Select Security under the Meeting Settings
- Look for the setting titled Block users in specific domains from joining meetings and webinars and enable it
- Select the Pencil Icon and manually type in the domains of the summary tools you wish to block, separated by commas. IE: Otter.AI, Read.AI
- Select Save to finish
Removing AI Summaries From a Meeting in Progress
If you notice an AI Summary tool in your meeting that you have not yet blocked the domain for, you can manually remove the tool from your meeting in the same way that you can remove participants.