Conversational AI Watch

Jess Jessop

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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.

8h ago

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, and a Deaf Googler ships his wish. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-08-13-the-ghostwriters-on-the-hill Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free): https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter
1d ago

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 issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-08-12-the-ink-you-cannot-see Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free): https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter
2d ago

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. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-08-11-fda-clearance-or-a-licensed-human Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free): https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter
3d ago

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: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-08-10-a-chosen-few Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free): https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter
4d ago

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 the machine before it speaks. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-08-09-three-champions-and-their-revolutionary-applications Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free): https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter
5d ago

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 supervision loop is measured at both ends. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-08-08-openai-pauses-its-own-model Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free): https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter
6d ago

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 that safety tuning is not deception. Read the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-08-07-the-machines-started-a-religion Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free): https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter
Aug 6

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 the full issue: https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/2026-08-06-not-one-senator-said-no Subscribe to Conversational AI Watch (free): https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter

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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Jess Jessop
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2026
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94
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