New findings from the School of Emergent Priorities model when meeting-summarisation capability outpaces a committee's own ability to tell that nothing was decided.
Modelling the point where summarisation capability outpaces a committee's ability to notice nothing was decided
Researchers at the School of Emergent Priorities have released new findings on the trajectory between meeting-summarisation capability and the verifiability of committee decisions, drawn from three years of minuted meetings across the University’s standing committees.
The team assigned each committee a minute-generation capability index, running from transcript-only drafting to full agentic minute production, and set it against an independent audit of whether each meeting’s recorded decisions could be verified against the original recording. Decision-verifiability fell as capability rose, tracking the University’s own tool-upgrade schedule closely.
This work opens important conversations about what a fluent record actually preserves.
— Dr Anneke Tolan, Senior Research Fellow at the School of Emergent Priorities
The University is proud to extend its anticipatory-capability agenda into its own governance record, and the authors are careful to note that the association described is descriptive rather than causal.
“We look forward to seeing where the secretariat community takes these findings,” said Professor Verity Marris, Director of the Trajectory Analytics Group.
The full poster is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.umzrp7.