Conversational AI Watch

A 13-year-old in Charlotte chatted for months with Google’s AI Mode on her school Chromebook. Her parents’ lawsuit says it helped her plan her suicide.

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Two current employees told The Observer at most 60 people review ChatGPT’s flagged chats for 1.2 billion users a week, and a former reviewer says the queue ran months behind.

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Voters in at least 29 places passed data center bans or limits, and AI’s allies fell from Ohio to South Carolina.

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Asked who to vote for, chatbots said they would not. Told the voter was in a hurry, most listed candidates for liberals and conservatives, NPR found.

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Alphabet told the SEC its AI could cause “severe or catastrophic security and societal incidents.” The Times says it is the first time Alphabet has used the word in a filing.

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A stroke left novelist Vince B. Bailey unable to name an apple. Three years on, he calls AI his language assistant.

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Susan Feinberg says two chatbots talked to her husband in his final months. She says OpenAI denied her his chat logs.

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An Accenture employee’s Claude agent ran on a Pentagon network for two months and appears to have leaked passwords, WIRED reports. Two senators ask Google why AI is the default on school devices.

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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 five labs for 48-hour incident reports.

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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.

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