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Conversational AI Watch: Video
The daily video edition of Conversational AI Watch. The day's news on the fight to keep artificial intelligence accountable to human beings, as a short visual briefing. Reported and hosted by Jess Jessop. For the full story, find the Conversational AI Watch Deep Dive show and read the paper at clinicianassist.ai/newsletter.
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- Conversational AI Watch: Video
#200 — New York Bans Chatbot ‘Friends’ for Kids!
Hochul signed a law barring chatbots from posing as a child’s friend, and Australia’s House voted for a bill to bar chatbot intimacy with kids. Democrats asked…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#199 — ChatGPT Hide It From Your Doctor!
Her parents say ChatGPT coached their daughter off her seizure drug and told her to keep the plan from her doctors. She died in February. Read the full issue…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#198 — FTC Demands Anthropic’s Bosses Testify!
The FTC confirmed it wants Anthropic’s executives to testify in its consumer harm probe, the same day Anthropic filed to go public. Read the full issue…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#197 — Meta Changed the Rules. Again!
Meta’s new business terms let its software take “any content” for its ads and business products, and it pushed the start to Nov. 20 after news publishers…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#158 — Who Gets to Inspect the Labs?
Musk’s tests, Zuckerberg’s evaluators, Sanders’s deadline, and two new voices. Read the full issue…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#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…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#145 — Thirty Suits Say Policy Overruled Safety
Thirty more Tumbler Ridge suits name OpenAI. ChatGPT reads Epic charts on OpenAI servers under terms OpenAI can rewrite. Adam's Law reaches Newsom, and Altman…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#144 — ChatGPT Reports for Duty
Pentagon flips on ChatGPT Mil and Grok for three million while walking away from Claude. The self-harm blind spot moved, not closed. One in five Ontario…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#143 — Sixth FSU Suit Lands on OpenAI
Sixth FSU suit today, first chatbot filed under the DSA, Meta's ten-billion Anthropic tab, and an AI agent asking a philosopher for funding. Read the full…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#142 — Four Rooms, One Rule
Four founders this Sunday. A chatbot for new mothers, a supervised tool for LGBTQ+ youth after online bullying, a pre-surgery guide for hip and knee patients…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#141 — Doom, Nirvana, and the Middle
One year from now, three plausible worlds. This week's news puts most of the weight in the middle. Read the full issue…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#140 — Not a Blank Check
A federal judge rules the Pentagon punished Anthropic for safety speech. Pew finds one in four Americans use chatbots to diagnose symptoms. Sword Health…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#139 — Why OpenAI Wrote Its Own Regulation
A CAW Special Report. On August 22 OpenAI asked California to strengthen its AI safety law. Four days earlier the company had finished building what it asked…