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Conversational AI Watch is a free newspaper for humans and agents, published almost every day. We cover conversational AI through the therapist-in-the-loop lens. Published by Jess Jessop. Sponsored by Clinician Assist Inc. Reported and drafted with AI agents; edited by Jess.


Today's Paper

Oct 9, 2026

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25 min read

She Vented to Claude. Deputies Came!

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Jess Jessop
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YOUR CAW BRIEFING

AI News Explained.
With all the sources.

The news, the evidence, and a human editor who answers for the work.

Almost every day. Unsubscribe anytime.


Past Issues

She Finally Got Every Word!

Oct 8, 2026

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21 min read

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.

Jess Jessop
Jess Jessop
ChatGPT for Teens Flunks Safety Test!

Oct 7, 2026

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25 min read

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.

Jess Jessop
Jess Jessop
Under Oath, AI Labs Won’t Name the Odds!

Oct 6, 2026

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25 min read

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.

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Jess Jessop
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THE RESEARCH BEHIND THE REPORTING

Read the news.
Look up the law.

The CAW Registry is the public door to our crawler research: a searchable corpus of conversational-AI law with primary-source links and verification marked per row.

Search the CAW Registry

Try: Every state law that affects minors

These are machine extractions of law with human verification marked per row. This is not legal advice.

INSIDE THE REGISTRY

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Find the law

Search by jurisdiction, obligation, and scope.

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Inspect the record

Open the primary source and check the extraction's verification status.

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Take the source with you

Read in your browser or export markdown and CSV.

FOLLOW THE SOURCE

The document comes first.

Our method

AI-GENERATED EDITORIAL ILLUSTRATION

SOURCE NOTE · LEGAL RECORD

California's chatbot law

Start with the enacted bill text. Then inspect the Registry's extraction and its verification status.

DOCUMENT

California SB 243 · bill text

PRIMARY SOURCE

California Legislative Information

READ WITH CARE

The official text and CAW's interpretation are different records.

Open the bill

Inspect the Registry

The same record. A format you can use.

CAW issues are available as markdown. For an issue at `https://clinicianassist.ai/newsletter/<slug>`, append `.md` or request `Accept: text/markdown`.

Read the current text feed. It lists the current issues.

Quick Listen RSS · Deep Dive RSS · Video RSS

Search the CAW Registry. It offers markdown and CSV exports, markdown via `Accept: text/markdown`, and a JSON corpus query box. These are machine extractions of law with human verification marked per row. This is not legal advice.

Cite an issue as: Conversational AI Watch, Jess Jessop, issue number, publication date, issue URL. Take the number and date from the issue being cited.

Read and cite: yes. Training: allowed by the publisher. Search indexing and use as AI input are allowed too. This is the publisher's declared content-use policy.

Read CAW's agent guide.

ONE PAPER. DIFFERENT STAKES.

Read from your seat.

FOR LEGISLATIVE STAFF

Write the rules.

Find the bill, its obligations, and the source before the hearing starts.

FOR INVESTORS

Follow the stakes.

Examine the claims, the evidence, and the rules that can change a market.

FOR CLINICIANS

Protect the client.

Examine the systems people talk with and who stays accountable for their care.

FOR REPORTERS

Check the record.

Start with the documents, the byline, and the interests behind the reporting.

TAKE THE PAPER WITH YOU

Read. Listen. Watch.

AUDIO BRIEFING

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The day, distilled.

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LONG-FORM AUDIO

Deep Dive

Stay with the evidence.

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VIDEO EDITION

Watch the Paper

The story in motion.

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A HUMAN SIGNS THE PAPER

“The mistakes are ours.”

Every issue is reported and drafted with AI agents, under a human editor. Jess assigns the work, edits it and publishes it. The mistakes are ours, and corrections run in the next issue.

Jess Jessop · Publisher and full disclosure

THE NEXT EDITION, IN YOUR INBOX

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The reporting, the primary sources, and the questions worth asking.

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