AI Joins Meetings and Edits Files

Companies are embedding generative agents directly into collaboration tools so the agent can appear as a meeting participant, take notes, fetch data from CRMs, edit spreadsheets live, and synthesize action items while people talk. Those agents also plug into third‑party apps (Adobe, Atlassian, HubSpot) and business data stores, making them first‑class operational actors rather than passive assistants. — This matters because it shifts responsibility and control for routine knowledge work (notes, tracking, synthesis, integration) from humans and IT to private AI agents and their platform owners, raising questions about lock‑in, accountability, data access, and workplace norms.