[ethbr1]

Microphone / camera / speaker in meeting?

I'm sympathetic to the way you're looking at this, but imho the end state will be similar to most other automating technologies.

The simplest, lowest-effort work will be automated (sitting and transcribing), and humans will reapply themselves to (more productively) do higher-level tasks.

I'm sure a local beat reporter would be thrilled if they could get notes from all the meetings yesterday.

[axus]

And asking questions? Will the AI have hallways conversations, historical context and relationships with previous office-holders that inform the questions?

A reporter is supposed to care about accuracy, an AI only cares about generating words that make sense and fit the page. I can see why the owners align with the AI more than the reporter.

[add-sub-mul-div]

We're living in an unfortunate time when people have been trained so thoroughly to hate institutions that they've lost basic understanding of how those institutions work. And how they still serve us, despite their flaws. The institutions have become nothing more than abstractions that can be rhetorically written off and replaced by either outsiders from the establishment, or in this case algorithms.

[bluGill]

don't forget the people who try to exploit the institution for their own gain. Thus ensuring institutions are bogged down in bureaucracy to prevent that.

[ethbr1]

Why not?

I'm not sure SOTA is at the most insightful questions yet, but those are rarely the ones that get answered at briefings anyway.

Point being that it's not "human-or" but "human-and".

A local reporter who spends their night reading summaries of the day's meetings, diving into the raw recordings where needed, and then writing prompts for tomorrow's agents doesn't sound like a terrible future.

As the quip about local journalism goes: a lot of it is sitting around at meeting #324, to pick up the one interesting tidbit.

With local news having been apple-cored revenue-wise by social media, that's now generally just not being done outside of major metros.

So I'd welcome anything that promotes more transparency and local reporting!

[braza]

Transcribing is almost at the end of the journalistic process. The hard part is getting the facts (correctly), checking and cross-checking, calling sources, trying to get back channels, in many cases have boots on the ground, and then summarize all those things and put them all together before editorialization.