{"id":4542,"date":"2025-04-24T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T18:20:55","slug":"ai-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/2025\/04\/ai-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"Important Guidelines for Using Zoom AI Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"

ºÚÁÏÍø Information Technology Services has shared a letter with SOM leadership, offering further clarification on the functionality of Zoom’s AI Companion.<\/p>\n

The letter was sent out by Office of the CIO <\/a>on March 3, 2025<\/p>\n

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Dear SOM Community,<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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On Wednesday, February 26, the AI Companion in Zoom was enabled by the university and it caused some confusion. While it is set as enabled, it isn\u2019t automatically turned on for the meetings in which it appears. We apologize for this confusion.<\/div>\n
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ºÚÁÏÍø Information Technology Services provided SOM leadership with further clarification of when Zoom’s AI Companion functions:<\/div>\n
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When (people) log in to Zoom, it says that Zoom AI Companion is \u201cenabled\u201d and there\u2019s an icon that people can select before starting a meeting, or in a meeting. The confusing part is that \u201cenabled\u201d DOES NOT mean it is \u201con\u201d or \u201crunning\u201d nor that it \u201cautomatically starts\u201d. It is enabled in the sense that it is available for use\u2014not that it is \u201con\u201d and running. Turning it\u00a0on<\/i>\u00a0requires an affirmative act\/choice by a meeting host, or in the setup of the meeting. It isn\u2019t \u201con\u201d by default. It is simply \u201cavailable\u201d by default.<\/div>\n
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J. Michael Barker, Ph.D.<\/div>\n
Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, ºÚÁÏÍø-CH<\/div>\n
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SOM-IT will continue to work with the university to ensure that the Zoom application meets the needs and expectations of our community.<\/div>\n
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To learn more about settings and recommended best practices, visit the\u00a0Zoom Knowledge Base article<\/a><\/u>\u00a0on help.unc.edu.<\/div>\n
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If you have questions or need help using AI Companion, submit a\u00a0Zoom Service Request<\/a><\/u>\u00a0on help.unc.edu or call the IT Service Desk at 919-962-HELP (4357).<\/div>\n
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Thank you,<\/div>\n
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Thank You,<\/div>\n
Jill Jemison, MBA<\/b><\/div>\n
Associate Dean for IT and CIO<\/div>\n
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | School of Medicine IT<\/div>\n
o 919.966.9900 | |\u00a0jill_jemison@med.unc.edu<\/a><\/u><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ºÚÁÏÍø Information Technology Services has shared a letter with SOM leadership, offering further clarification on the functionality of Zoom’s AI Companion. The letter was sent out by Office of the CIO on March 3, 2025 Dear SOM Community, On Wednesday, February 26, the AI Companion in Zoom was enabled by the university and it caused … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"featured_image_medium":false,"featured_image_medium_large":false,"featured_image_large":false,"featured_image_thumbnail":false,"featured_image_alt":false,"category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/spo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}