A new technology developed by Columbia University researchers, calledNeural Voice Camouflage, may offer a defense.

“Meeting participants may be more careful about which points they raise and how their speech is being transcribed.

The new technique achieves real-time performance by forecasting an attack on the future of the signal or word.

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Meeting participants may be more careful about which points they raise and how their speech is being transcribed.

The complete transcript can serve as a record of the meeting.

“People may be concerned about being spied on when AI transcription is on,” Huth added.

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“This seems very similar to the concern of having a conversation recorded without consent or clandestinely.”

But not everyone agrees that smart devices are a threat.