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Name: Meeting bots.

Age: Relatively new.

Appearance: Soulless drones attending your monthly planning meeting.

That sounds like everyone who attends our monthly meetings. Exactly – they fit in so well that often nobody notices.

Notices what? That they are not people, they are AI-powered entities.

You mean robot spies? It’s more of a virtual workspace tool – a bot assistant that accompanies you to your online meeting.

What’s the point of that? The bot takes notes so you don’t have to, and if you are late to the meeting it will catch you up on the discussion so far.

That sounds creepy, but sort of handy. You can also expect a critique of your behaviour afterwards.

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