How do I stop AI-generated meeting notes from creating commitments nobody made?
Tell your AI agent to keep what was discussed apart from what was agreed. A proposal stays a proposal until the notes show someone accepted it, and an open question stays a question. Anything with no owner or deadline gets marked unconfirmed.
Teresa Carlson described using AI for notes on action items in her personal workflow. The snag for anyone copying that workflow: the difference between something discussed and something agreed.
Each action should come back with the passage from the meeting record that supports it, along with its owner and deadline. Without those, a tidy list can turn "we could explore this next month" into an assignment due on the first day of the month.
Read the notes against the source before they go out. Check whether the named person took responsibility, and whether that date was a deadline or just a possibility. I'd confirm anything ambiguous with the people involved, so the summary doesn't settle it for them.
What to try this week
Write a short meeting record with a proposal, an accepted action and an open question in it. Run it through your AI agent and see whether all three come back labeled the way they went.