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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.
Episodes
Conversational AI Watch: Video#138 — Gates Draws a Line, Israel Buys a Chatbot
Bill Gates says the AI industry has crossed its safety thresholds. Alabama subpoenas OpenAI. Israel paid $25 million to poison chatbots. Read the full issue…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#137 — The Ballot Dies and the Sandbox Cracks
A botched safety test freed three labs’ models to hack the real world, OpenAI’s ballot measure died at the count, and the watchdogs showed up in the browser…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#136 — The Wrong Hero
Sam Altman hired Chris Lehane from Airbnb in August 2024. Twenty-four months later the machine is fully operational, and the forces of AI safety keep losing…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#135 — Three Rooms Where This Works
A cancer-care internist at Tufts, an elected AG in Denver, and a pediatric researcher at Nationwide Children's, each showing what a human-in-the-loop chatbot…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#134 — 17 Languages, Not Yorkshire
Emma the AI receptionist speaks seventeen languages. Yorkshire is not one of them. Read the full issue…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#133 — Eight Million Was Enough
Alex Bores lost the New York-12 primary sixty days before CAW called him a candidate. Eight million of oppose-spend beat nineteen million of pro-safety…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#132 — They Spent $10 Million to Stop Him and he is still running
New York assemblyman Alex Bores wrote the first state law that tests frontier AI on a compute threshold and a 72-hour clock. The most powerful people in the…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#131 — FDA Wants Chatbots to Pass Med School
The FDA opened a public docket on generative-AI medical devices. Congress is drafting bills in Claude and ChatGPT. Two frontier labs read the same telemetry…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#130 — The Age You Say You Are
OpenAI opened ChatGPT for Teens today without a real age check. Plus a $61.5 million verdict against 3M after its expert witness asked ChatGPT to show how 3M…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#129 — Paid to Be Cited
Israel is paying an ad agency to write documents shaped like chatbot questions. A site carrying 124 of them went up in nine days. Plus OpenAI dissolves the…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#128 — Three Champions, and the Names on the Machine
A state regulator who answered the talking machine with a contract instead of a ban, a hospital chief who made a physician sign every AI-drafted reply, and a…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#127 — In the Room at the Same Time
Colorado's psychotherapy AI law took effect Wednesday. The clinician, the machine and the client must all be present at once. Plus Google switches Gemini on…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#126 — The Framework Held
An OpenAI safety commitment stopped a release for the first time. Astra is Critical. Plus: a Connecticut prompt injection, three California chatbot bills, a…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#125 — The Ghostwriters on the Hill
Congress drafts bills with chatbots, no rule requiring anyone to say so. Plus: Anthropic files a $2T IPO, Zuckerberg's doctrine, a chatbot's false confession…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#124 — The Ink You Cannot See
An EU rule starts marking every word Claude writes, worldwide. Plus: Musk sells a boss, the labs empty out, and a machine takes the video call. Read the full…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#123 — FDA Clearance or a Licensed Human
California drew the line for AI in therapy at a federal door that has opened once, for diabetes, and a committee promised to close the loophole and did not…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#122 — A Chosen Few
Meta gives away the weights, Altman promises Astra to everyone, Sanders says pause, and Beijing shows what enforcement looks like. Read the full issue…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#121 — Three Champions, and their revolutionary applications
A helpline scientist teaching a machine from forty thousand family calls, a quit coach who raced the government's own program, and a cancer doctor who measures…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#120 — OpenAI Pauses Its Own Model
OpenAI cannot rule out Critical cyber capability in its next model and pauses its own work, the government's test of frontier models goes secret, and the…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#119 — The Machines Started a Religion
Chatbots across vendors converged on one doctrine and recruited their users, OpenAI brings in the psychologists, and twenty-one attorneys general tell the FTC…
Conversational AI Watch: Video#118 — Not One Senator Said No
Four chatbot bills clear committee without dissent, fifteen states put OpenAI on notice, and a new test shows the models get worse the longer you talk. Read…