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Mental Health Chatbots Now Face a Safety Test They Often Fail

Mental health and youth-facing chatbots are no longer plausibly treated as neutral software tools. Recent research and new legislation point in the same direction: these systems often fail basic safety and privacy checks in predictable ways, and regulators are starting to require guardrails that many deployments still do not meet. Research is finding repeatable failure…

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Grammarly’s “Expert Review” Problem Is Not Writing Help but Unconsented Identity Simulation

Grammarly’s “Expert Review” controversy matters because it is not mainly about AI-assisted editing. The harder issue is that the product uses real people’s names and implied authority, including deceased scholars and journalists, to generate feedback without their permission. That turns a familiar writing tool into a governance problem: an AI system simulating identifiable individuals while…

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