I already simulate participation in my Teams meetings, for free.

It's my belief that 99% of meetings between more than two people are huge wastes of time that should have just been individual conversations.

Dick Gozinya: Pocket Ninja: Isn't simulating participation in a Teams meeting called turning off your camera and going on mute?

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If you've got an Nvidia graphics card, they just updated Nvidia Broadcast to include an effect which simulates your eyes looking at the camera even when you're looking away.

I've got multi-monitors, and my camera is on top of a screen I'm usually not looking at, so it's not really useful for me, but probably would make most people look like they're being more attentive.

Diocletian's Last Cabbage: So, if everyone's simulation is attending the meetings without their owners, and the bots hold the meeting by themselves, will the bots take over the company?  The country?  The WORLD!?

IIRC, in Asimov's I Robot books the machines had already taken over human society before people figured it out. We'd offloaded so many tasks to them, we basically handed them control of everything one piece at a time, slowly, for faster financial systems and such. We automated so much that eventually it was all machines talking to other machines, and making all the actual decisions.

Pretty realistic.