AI & Data

Most people who work with a mentor or coach share things that matter — and I think you should know exactly what happens to that information, without having to ask.

  • The only AI tools that come anywhere near client sessions or client data are the transcription and note-taking features in Google Meet — and those are never on by default. If you'd like to use them, we'll set that up together with your explicit permission. If you'd prefer not to, I'll take notes as best I can during and after the session. Recordings will still be available either way. Neither choice affects the mentoring itself, and neither is the wrong one.

  • Transcription and AI note-taking in Google Meet are off by default. If you'd like to use them, let me know before our first session and we'll set it up together.

  • I'll be direct: AI doesn't align with my values in a lot of ways. The copyright issues are real and largely unresolved. The environmental cost is significant and frequently understated. And the pace at which companies are integrating AI — into products, into workplaces, into decisions that affect people's careers and livelihoods — often feels like it's moving faster than the consideration it deserves.

    The concern I keep coming back to is what gets lost when something that should be done with care starts to feel like it wasn't. A performance review delivered without evident thought. Feedback on something that really mattered, handled in a way that made the person wonder whether anyone had actually sat with it. Workplace decisions that carried real consequences but arrived feeling like they'd been processed rather than considered. Whether AI was actually involved in those situations often matters less than the feeling that a human wasn't fully present for them — and that feeling is worth taking seriously.

    I still use the transcription and AI note taking to provide options for clients that need the notes to remember what was discussed properly between sessions.

    My aim is to eventually move to open source transcription software and potentially a local tool to summarise those transcriptions.

    There may be other incidental AI usage in tools like Notion or Canva. Client data isn’t connected to those and I make an active effort to not use the AI features.