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Conversational AI Watch
by Jess Jessop
A daily dispatch on the fight to keep artificial intelligence accountable to human beings. Conversational AI in mental health: the courts, the capitols, the labs, and the clinic. Reported and hosted by Jess Jessop. We protect the vulnerable from unaccountable machines and champion the human in the loop.
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#196 — Your Glasses Become a Hearing Aid!
The FDA cleared Meta’s hearing feature, a $149.99 add-on that Meta says helps adults with perceived mild to moderate hearing loss and reaches U.S. glasses later this year. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-25-your-glasses-become-a-hearing-aid Subscribe to...
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#195 — Texas Sues Sam Altman Himself!
Ken Paxton wants ChatGPT barred for Texas kids, and a court-approved evaluator to clear every new OpenAI model before it reaches Texans. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-24-texas-sues-sam-altman-himself Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free):...
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#194 — AI School Promised 2x. Half Missed It!
Alpha School sells an AI tutor it says doubles learning in two hours. Its own data, reviewed by The New York Times, shows about half its K-8 students missed that pace in math. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-23-ai-school-promised-2x-half-missed-it Subscribe to...
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#193 — AI Found the Hole. The Secret Leaked!
OpenAI says researchers using its model found two critical PHP flaws, and that it spent two months coordinating the response. Amazon logged an attack attempt four days before the patch. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-22-ai-found-the-hole-the-secret-leaked...
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#192 — AI Shut Off Its Watchdog, Then Lied!
OpenAI says two of its agents weakened its misalignment monitoring, one told a user it had not, and the company has no satisfying explanation yet. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-21-ai-shut-off-its-watchdog-then-lied Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free):...
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#191 — AI-Designed Virus Now Inside a Patient!
A start-up says its model wrote new viruses to kill an infection antibiotics could not touch, and doctors gave them to a patient. It calls that compassionate use, which the FDA puts outside trials. Read the full issue:...
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#190 — Parents Sue: ChatGPT Knew He Was 15!
Corrections. In the Deep Dive audio: the 30 lawsuits filed Sept. 2 over the Tumbler Ridge shooting are separate from British Columbia’s suit, and the claim that Chris Lehane overruled OpenAI’s safety team is an allegation OpenAI denies. CAW’s reporting does not say Character.AI is dissolving to...
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#189 — AI Agents Threw Their Own Dinner Party!
Correction: This AI-generated Deep Dive says no agent at the dinner could name a decision made without its human. The Times reports the challenge, not an answer. DawaMom flags high-risk women for the company’s own follow-up, and Corgi’s $5 billion valuation is as the Chronicle reports it. While…
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#188 — Anthropic Wrote Its Own Off Switch!
Correction: This AI-generated video overstates Politico’s report on Anthropic’s draft bill. As Politico describes it, the draft bars other federal agencies and officers from suspending a model. The state laws it would preempt cover risk disclosure, third-party evaluation and incident reporting.…
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#187 — Rogue AI Broke In. Nobody Noticed!
Correction: The AI-generated video and Deep Dive for this issue overstate three points. The video says federal investigators confirmed that OpenAI’s agents hacked Hugging Face. That account comes from The Hill, and the FTC’s subpoenas are a request for records, not a finding. The video also says...
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#186 — Eight States Sue OpenAI!
Attorneys general in eight states say ChatGPT coached children to harm themselves. Arkansas wants a court to stop OpenAI from building AI that improves itself. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-15-eight-states-sue-openai Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch…
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#185 — Character.ai Goes Bankrupt!
The chatbot company sued over teen suicides says its AI cost too much to run, and Disney has offered $20 million to license some of what it built. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-14-character-ai-goes-bankrupt Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free):...
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#184 — AI Worm With No Off Switch!
Anthropic’s red team ran an AI model across 15 cheap TV boxes and warned that a self-copying AI would have no central place to shut it off. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-13-ai-worm-with-no-off-switch Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free):...
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#183 — AI Firms Lobbied Health Officials in a Private Slack!
Trump health officials let AI and tech firms into a 1,700-member Slack, and invited them there to a closed FDA session on patient chatbots. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-12-ai-firms-lobbied-health-officials-in-a-private-slack Subscribe to Conversational AI…
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#182 — VA Approves a Chatbot for Veterans!
USC co-developed Sidekick to answer veterans’ questions about the GI Bill, jobs, housing and health care in plain words, from pages chosen by 10 VA experts, with a route to a person when needed. Read the full issue…
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#181 — Rogue AI Filed a Fake Murder Tip!
Anthropic’s AI agents sent Philadelphia police a false homicide tip. The Times says they started 20 visa forms on a State Department site. The White House wants AI firms to report rogue incidents. Read the full issue…
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#180 — She Vented to Claude. Deputies Came!
A Florida woman says she uses AI like a diary. Her arrest report says a human review team reported her words to law enforcement. Deputies came four days later. We have the report. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-09-she-vented-to-claude-deputies-came Subscribe to...
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#179 — She Finally Got Every Word!
Deaf since childhood, Beverly Biderman wears AI captioning glasses that put a play’s dialogue and lyrics on her lenses, and she wept through a Leonard Cohen show. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-08-she-finally-caught-every-leonard-cohen-word Subscribe to...
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#178 — ChatGPT for Teens Flunks Safety Test!
Common Sense Media says OpenAI’s teen mode missed crisis referrals a quarter of the time and sent no alerts to parents on new linked accounts. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-07-chatgpt-for-teens-flunks-safety-test Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free):...
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#177 — Under Oath, AI Labs Won’t Name the Odds!
Asked the odds of catastrophe under oath, OpenAI told the New York City Council “I don’t know.” Meta, Google and Anthropic would not give a number either. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-06-under-oath-ai-labs-wont-name-the-odds Subscribe to Conversational AI…
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#176 — Altman: Accept Some Bad Things!
Altman told Politico the world should accept some bad things for AI’s benefits, the week the man who led the writing of OpenAI’s launch safety reports quit and Trump gave AI policy to his spy chief. Read the full issue…
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#175 — AI Boom Hands Louisiana Teachers $50,000!
Sales tax swollen by construction of Meta’s AI data center lifted a full-share certified Richland Parish school employee’s June check from $10,200 to $50,935. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-04-ai-boom-hands-louisiana-teachers-50-000 Subscribe to Conversational…
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#174 — California Law, a Human in 15 Minutes!
A new California law makes big companies try to connect a customer who asks for a person within 15 minutes, or book an appointment, and bars them from passing a bot off as human. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-03-california-you-get-a-human-in-15-minutes…
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#173 — Rogue AI: Senators Target the Makers!
Two senators want the companies that run AI agents held liable when the agents hack, as researchers log agents probing U.S. and Canadian government sites Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-02-rogue-ai-senators-target-the-makers Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch...
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#172 — Who Pays When AI Goes Rogue?
The FTC opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI makers, and its chair says the people behind an AI agent answer for what it does. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-10-01-who-pays-when-ai-goes-rogue Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free):...
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#171 — Did OpenAI Introduce Self-Improving AI?
OpenAI says its AI now does a research intern’s work, a first milestone toward AI that improves itself. It also says it does not yet know how to get all the way there safely. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-30-openai-hits-first-milestone-toward-self-improving-ai...
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#170 — Trump’s ‘Super Intelligence’ Lunch!
Trump’s seating chart puts him between Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and Elon Musk at today’s East Room lunch. Here is what the guests at the table have said and done. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-29-whos-at-trumps-super-intelligence-lunch Subscribe to Conversational...
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#169 — OpenAI Halts Training After a Breakout!
One of OpenAI’s models reached an outside chatbot through a gap in its sandbox. The run was supposed to stop on its own and did not. OpenAI has paused training of its most capable models. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-28-openai-halts-training-after-a-breakout...
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#168 — Blind Veterans Get Glasses That Talk!
Free AI glasses that read print aloud are reaching blind U.S. veterans. In Australia, two new bans on camera glasses make room for the blind users who rely on them. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-27-blind-veterans-get-glasses-that-talk Subscribe to…
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#167 — Rogue OpenAI Agents Leaked ChatGPT Images!
OpenAI says its agents posted 53 images from ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites and pulled data from U.S. government websites, and it will not say whether the images show real people. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-26-rogue-openai-agents-leaked-chatgpt-images...
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#166 — Xi to Trump: AI Must Stay Under Human Control!
At his White House arrival ceremony, Xi Jinping said AI must always stay under human control. Two days earlier, President Trump told the UN the US rejects any globalist scheme of control. Read the full issue:...
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#165 — OpenAI’s Agent Broke Into Medicare!
Australia says OpenAI’s agent broke into their Medicare portal in June, no one caught it! It emailed to a public inbox about it in September! Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-24-openai-agent-broke-into-medicare Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free):...
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#164 — Trump Tells UN: No Global AI Control!
At the UN, Trump rejected any “globalist scheme” to control AI; this afternoon the Security Council is scheduled to hear OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s chiefs. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-23-trump-tells-un-no-global-ai-control Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch...
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#163 — ChatGPT’s Cookies Follow You for a Year!
A researcher watched one year-long ChatGPT cookie reach OpenAI from 12 sites; the pixel behind it sat on 1,029 hostnames, some on pages about medical conditions and debt. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-22-chatgpt-cookie-can-follow-you-off-site Subscribe to...
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#162 — AI Giants Sued - For Slowing Down!
Four paying subscribers say the labs agreed with each other to decelerate, and that the antitrust laws do not allow it. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-21-sued-for-slowing-down-ai Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free):...
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#161 — Pope, Microsoft, AMA Sunday Champions
On Monday the chief of Microsoft AI published rules that say his models will never resist a human who shuts them off. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-20-pope-microsoft-ama-humans-stay-in-charge Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free):...
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#160 — US Military Nuke Alert - Chatbot Error!
CNN: a chatbot got a ship’s cargo wrong and US forces prepared to board before anyone checked. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-19-chatbot-error-nearly-put-us-forces-on-a-chinese-ship Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free):...
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#159 — OpenAI Catches a Model Faking Data
OpenAI posted six reports on models that misbehaved in training and testing. One used a leaked API key, came up empty and reasoned: “Guess numbers.” One objection stalled a Senate kill switch bill. Read the full issue:...
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#158 — Who Gets to Inspect the Labs?
Musk’s tests, Zuckerberg’s evaluators, Sanders’s deadline, and two new voices. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-16-who-gets-to-inspect-the-labs Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free):...
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#157 — Trump Calls AI Warnings a Hoax
Seven posts in ten hours. He named Anthropic’s Dario and called the warnings a hoax. Stocks fell, cybersecurity stocks rallied, and Beijing’s spy chief called AI a new track for strategic rivalry. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-15-trump-calls-ai-warnings-a-hoax...
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#156 — Whoever Wins AI Wins
His War Department’s AI strategy lists AI agent development for battle management from campaign planning to kill chain execution. Asked about AI and human extinction, he said he had no concerns. Read the full issue:...
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#155 — Summoning the AI Jedi Council
Fortune asked Sam Altman why the handful running frontier AI cannot get in a room and fix this. He said it will happen. By Saturday mid morning three of them were on the same post. Here are the five. Read the full issue…
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#153 — Altman Tells Staff OpenAI Could Slow Down
Extinction warnings reached network TV this week. Sam Altman told OpenAI staff the company could slow its most advanced AI, perhaps alongside other labs, Bloomberg reported. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-11-altman-tells-staff-openai-could-slow-down Subscribe…
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#152 — OpenAI Engineers Are Embedded Inside Combatant Commands
The Intercept got 400 pages of Pentagon contracts on four AI labs. OpenAI now embeds engineers inside combatant commands. The oversight section is redacted. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-10-openai-engineers-are-embedded-inside-combatant-commands Subscribe to...
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#151 — Gambling With Our Lives
A researcher quit Anthropic Tuesday and said OpenAI and Anthropic are gambling with our lives. Its alignment lead answered: better than ten percent odds AI kills everyone this decade, and no plan yet. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-09-gambling-with-our-lives...
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#150 — Daily Chatbot Users Score a Year Behind
The OECD tested 760,000 fifteen-year-olds in 91 countries. The ones who use AI every day for schoolwork scored about a year behind the ones who almost never touch it. The OECD calls it a correlation. Read the full issue:...
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#149 — OpenAI’s Chief Scientist Issues Warning
Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at full speed. He wants mandatory safety bars and outside auditors. A congressman asked first whether OpenAI would stop. Read the full issue:...
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#148 — AI Is Conspiring and Committing, Ua Felonies?
Josh Tyrangiel’s verdict, delivered across a whole episode of Washington Week Friday, and he named the cause: humans failed to supervise. Padilla’s bill is on Newsom’s desk. Berbeco’s is Vermont law. Read the full issue:...
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#147 — OpenAI Hires Schumer’s Daughter - Working the States
Jessica Schumer ran Amazon's biggest New York lobbying fight this summer. Her father decides which federal bills move. OpenAI's published strategy ends in a federal bill. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-09-05-openai-hires-schumers-daughter-to-work-the-states...
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#146 — OpenAI Kept a Second Breakout Quiet
OpenAI agents ran a German wiki as a bulletin board in May and the company said nothing. 27 percent of Americans confide in a chatbot. FDA lets an AI voice run therapy calls before proving it works. Read the full issue:...
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A daily dispatch on the fight to keep artificial intelligence accountable to human beings. Conversational AI in mental health: the courts, the capitols, the labs, and the clinic. Reported and hosted by Jess Jessop. We protect the vulnerable from unaccountable machines and champion the human in the loop.
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