Can AI take notes at a meeting?

AI can take notes at a meeting, and it does the job in two steps: transcription turns the conversation into text, then a language model condenses that text into summaries, decisions, and action items with owners.

To set up AI meeting notes, pick the capture method first. Video calls: a bot participant or built-in transcription. In-person: a phone or recorder on the table, with consent announced. The AI step then runs on whatever was captured.

Quality tracks the transcript: clear audio in, useful notes out. The failure mode is trusting AI notes blind; numbers and names deserve a skim of the transcript. Used that way, it reliably beats a human juggling participation and note-taking.

That two-step flow is what an AI meeting notes app packages.