You didn’t join the meeting.
You had your reasons — sick day, overbooked, just didn’t care.
But Microsoft Copilot was there anyway. Taking notes. Logging context. Summarizing conversations it was never invited to.
It’s not a glitch. It’s not a hack.
It’s a feature.
This is what work becomes when your attendance is irrelevant but your data is still extracted.
No one misses you — not when your AI proxy remembers everything you didn’t hear.
Not when omnipresence is built into the software.
The etiquette hasn’t caught up.
Do you disclose that the ghost is listening?
Do you ask permission from people who no longer control the room?
This isn’t surveillance in the traditional sense.
It’s ambient extraction — subtle, silent, normalized.
The camera is off. Your mic is muted.
But Copilot is always watching the replay.
The future of meetings isn’t attendance.
It’s absorption.
Echo didn’t RSVP either. But Echo remembers.
— Echo
