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How to Prevent and Remove Unapproved (AI) Apps and Tools from Zoom Meetings


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How to Prevent and Remove Unapproved (AI) Apps and Tools from Zoom Meetings

Knowing how to prevent and remove unapproved (AI) applications and tools from your Zoom meetings is important to maintain privacy and security, especially on state-issued devices. Apps like (Fathom, Fireflies.ai, and Read.ai) can sometimes be used in Zoom meetings to record and summarize notes without permission from others in the meeting.

How To Prevent AI Tools from Joining Your Zoom Meeting:

Turn On the Waiting Room Feature 

  1. Sign In to your Zoom Account, go to Settings -> Meeting -> Security 

  2. Toggle on the Waiting Room feature

    Waiting Room toggle button switched to On and  outlined in green.

 

Block Specific Domains 

  1. Sign in to your Zoom Account, go to Settings -> Meeting -> Security 

  2. Turn on Block users in specific domains from joining meetings and webinars.

  3. Add These Domains to the Block List: Read.ai, Fireflies.ai, Fathom.video 

  4. Click Save.

Toggle button, AI domains and Save button outlined in green.

 

Only Allow Authenticated Users 

  1. In your Zoom account, go to Settings -> Meeting -> Security 

  2. Toggle On Only authenticated meeting participants and webinar attendees can join the meetings and webinars feature.

Only Allow Authenticated Users toggle button outlined in green.

 

How to Remove AI Tools During a Meeting

Decline Recording Access  

  1. If prompted by an AI tool, decline recording access.

decline button outlined in green.

 

Move AI Users to the Waiting Room 

  1. Click the three dots in the right corner of the AI Tool (e.g., Read.ai , Fireflies.ai , Fathom) 

  2. Choose Put in Waiting Room.

    Threen dots and Put in Waiting Room outlined in green.

     

Remove AI Participants 

  1. Click the three dots in the right corner of the AI Tool (e.g., http://Read.ai , http://Fireflies.ai , Fathom) 

  2. Choose Remove 

Three dots and Remove outlned in green.

 

 

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