Artificial Intelligence (AI) Security

It is the opinion of the OA Foot Steps Security Committee that action be taken in all recovery meetings to protect the anonymity of our members. AI bots and similar note-taking apps, including but not limited to meeting summarizers, and any app that captures and stores meeting data (audio, video, or text), are not permitted in OA recovery meetings.

These AI devices have the ability to record during the meeting, therefore causing a breach of anonymity. Ensuring anonymity is part of our Traditions and these apps break that Tradition. They may have a name that contains “AI” or “Notetaker”. Eg. read.ai The name of the app / bot may not be obvious but the behavior might be. E.g. displays “recording” in the participants square.

The person responsible for letting participants in from the waiting room must ensure that AI bots are not admitted to the meeting. If they are already in the room, move them to the waiting room.

If you personally utilize any of these apps, please disable them before attending a recovery meeting.
Please consider including the following statement in your meeting announcements: “To ensure anonymity, AI bots and note-taking apps are not permitted in this meeting.”

Note: Tradition 12: Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all these Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.