How to Disable Meeting Summary with Zoom AI Companion

This article covers how faculty, staff, and students can disable Meeting Summary with Zoom AI Companion in the Zoom web application and turn off this feature during Zoom meetings.

Previously this feature was "opt in" which meant it was turned off by default. However, now the feature is "opt out" meaning that it is turned on by default.

What do you want to do?

Expand or collapse content Turn off the AI Meeting Summary when scheduling a Zoom meeting

1. Uncheck the Automatically start AI Companion option when scheduling a new Zoom meeting.

Zoom web scheduler AI Companion option
Zoom desktop scheduler AI Companion option

2. You will still have the option of starting the Meeting summary with AI Companion when the meeting starts by clicking on the AI Companion icon in the meeting toolbar.

meeting toolbar
Expand or collapse content Disable Meeting Summary with AI Companion completely

1. Log in to the CSUF Zoom web application.

2. Click Settings on the left navigation menu and then choose AI Companion.

Settings > AI Companion menus
  1. Click Settings on the left navigation menu.
  2. Then choose AI Companion.
  3. Want to disable the AI Companion that shows up in your Zoom desktop app and in the Zoom meeting toolbars? Click the slider next to AI Companion panel in Zoom Workplace.

3. Click the slider next to Meeting summary with AI Companion to turn the feature off completely.

disable Meeting summary with AI Companion

4. Click Disable to confirm you want to disable Meeting summary with AI Companion.

confirm disable of meeting summary

5. You'll see a pop-up indicating your settings have been updated.

changes made

Need More Help?

Faculty & Staff:

Contact the IT Help Desk at [email protected] or 657-278-7777.

Students:

Contact the Student IT Help Desk at [email protected] or 657-278-8888.