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Opinion · 5 October 2026

# Meeting minutes: AI can hold the pen, but not exercise judgement

Original title, in French: “Compte rendu de réunion : l'IA peut tenir la plume, pas le jugement”

**Publication**

Journal du Net (France)

**Author**

[Mathis Escriva](https://www.journaldunet.com/account/mathis-escriva-241778)

**Published on**

5 October 2026 · read in the page structured data

## Summary

The author, who works on an automated meeting-minutes tool, responds to a column by Yves Cavarec that recommended avoiding companies where AI writes these documents. He acknowledges the real risks: recording without explicit consent, circulation without review, and data processing by a subcontractor. He recalls the French legal obligations (Code pénal, Code du travail, consultation of the CSE in companies with at least fifty employees, Article 28 of the GDPR) and makes the case for a framework of use: systematic announcement of the recording, the option to refuse, review by a named writer who remains responsible for the text, an explicit purpose, limited retention, and exclusion of the content from model training. He considers that banning the tool does not solve the problem and may push people towards uncontrolled uses.

Summary based on the full text of the article.

[Read the article on Journal du Net →](https://www.journaldunet.com/intelligence-artificielle/1555737-compte-rendu-de-reunion-l-ia-peut-tenir-la-plume-pas-le-jugement/)

## Classification

**Country**

France

**Company size**

All sizes

**Industries**

All industries, or industry not specified

**Keywords**

meeting minutes, automatic transcription, gdpr, privacy at work, cse, data protection

Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Journal du Net and its author. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.