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Scheduled Service Change: Zoom AI Companion General Availability

Event:
2025-03-30 11:00:00
Expected Duration:
2025-03-30 13:00:00
Status:
Closed
Brief Description:
On Sunday, March 30, 2025, CIT will enable approved components of Zoom AI Companion. Zoom AI Companion should be used with similar care to that taken with other generative AI tools. Read the details in the full description.
User Impact:
Approved Zoom AI Companion features will have those settings unlocked in users' personal account settings, allowing individuals to enable these features and use them.
Services Affected:
Web and Video Conferencing
Subsites Affected:
Zoom
Full Description:
Zoom AI Companion should be used with similar care to that taken with other generative AI tools. Cornell hosts and participants who choose to use Zoom AI Companion need to understand and follow university policies for the protection of sensitive and restricted data as detailed at University Policy 5.1 Responsible Use of Information Technology Resources and Cornell’s guidance for using Zoom AI Companion

Documentation is available for use of Zoom AI Companion at Cornell.

Details about Zoom AI Companion defaults and settings can be found at Enable or Disable Zoom AI Companion Features.

On Sunday, March 30, 2025, CIT will enable the following approved components of Zoom AI Companion: 

  • Meeting Summary can create an AI-generated summary of the Zoom meeting, which hosts are expected to review for accuracy before sharing with others; 
  • In-Meeting Questions, which provide an interactive panel that allows participants to ask questions about meeting content and get AI-generated responses based on the meeting transcript; and
  • Smart Recording, which creates a cloud recording with AI-determined highlights. 
Meeting Summary and In-Meeting Questions are available by default and can be activated with the AI Companion button in the host’s Zoom toolbars. Smart Recordings can be enabled by hosts for their own meetings in their Zoom account settings; once enabled by a host, all cloud recordings started by that host will be Smart Recordings. 

Be aware that disabling Zoom AI Companion in your own Zoom account settings will not affect the ability of other hosts to use the feature in their own meetings.
CIT TDX ID:
1739343


Timeline of Changes

Description Current Status Date Time
Zoom AI Companion should be used with similar care to that taken with other generative AI tools. Cornell hosts and participants who choose to use Zoom AI Companion need to understand and follow university policies for the protection of sensitive and restricted data as detailed at University Policy 5.1 Responsible Use of Information Technology Resources and Cornell’s guidance for using Zoom AI Companion

Documentation is available for use of Zoom AI Companion at Cornell.

Details about Zoom AI Companion defaults and settings can be found at Enable or Disable Zoom AI Companion Features.

On Sunday, March 30, 2025, CIT will enable the following approved components of Zoom AI Companion: 

  • Meeting Summary can create an AI-generated summary of the Zoom meeting, which hosts are expected to review for accuracy before sharing with others; 
  • In-Meeting Questions, which provide an interactive panel that allows participants to ask questions about meeting content and get AI-generated responses based on the meeting transcript; and
  • Smart Recording, which creates a cloud recording with AI-determined highlights. 
Meeting Summary and In-Meeting Questions are available by default and can be activated with the AI Companion button in the host’s Zoom toolbars. Smart Recordings can be enabled by hosts for their own meetings in their Zoom account settings; once enabled by a host, all cloud recordings started by that host will be Smart Recordings. 

Be aware that disabling Zoom AI Companion in your own Zoom account settings will not affect the ability of other hosts to use the feature in their own meetings.
 2025-03-27 10:31:08