AI recording of advisor sessions
It has come to my attention that UCF is starting to make advisors record student appointments using AI. If students don't want the appointment recorded, they have to tell the advisor—making this opt-out, rather than opt-in. The data from these recordings will be stored on a server that university leadership has access to, and as a state university, it's quite likely that the state would then have access to it as well. This is potentially a huge breach of trust and privacy, if a student is bringing up subjects that wouldn't normally be shared outside of that appointment.
I'm sharing this on behalf of a friend because we suspect this isn't widely known, and the earlier people get outraged and push back, the better. Even if this policy doesn't get reversed, the more people who know about this and know they have to opt out to prevent their appointments from being recorded, the better. Tangentially, last week at a commencement ceremony, the speaker claimed AI is the next Industrial Revolution and got booed—if you haven't seen it, just Google "UCF commencement speaker booed" and you'll find plenty of video and articles.