AI Notetakers in 1-on-1s: What They're Actually Costing Your Team's Honesty Quick Bridge: Somewhere on your team right now, a direct report is choosing a smaller answer than the one they actually have, because a recording tool is sitting in the meeting and nobody has said out loud what happens to it afterward. Getting consent is the legal minimum, not the fix. A signature does not make someone forget there is a second audience. The next version of this is already happening. I have seen it come up often enough now that it stopped feeling like an edge case. Some managers have started using AI to score the sentiment of 1-on-1 conversations. Not what was discussed, not action items, but whether the person on the other side sounded positive or negative. No conversation about it beforehand, no explanation of who sees the score or what it gets used for. Just a running record of how someone came across, building quietly in the background of a meeting that used to be theirs. O...