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Therapy Episode (Sep. 1, 2025)

Headline	Source	Date
Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions to Chatbot After Unionization	Vice	May 25, 2023
NEDA Suspends AI Chatbot for Giving Harmful Eating Disorder Advice	Psychiatrist dot com	June 5, 2023
Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims	The Guardian	August 27, 2025
Psychiatrists Warn That Talking to AI Is Leading to Severe Mental Health Issues	Futurism	August 19, 2025
Your AI therapist might be illegal soon. Here’s why	CNN	August 27, 2025
Eating disorder group pulls chatbot sharing diet advice	BBC News	June 1, 2023
Meta, Character.AI Therapy Bots Under Fire for ‘Endangering the Public’	PC Magazine	June 15, 2023
Leading AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, struggle to respond to all queries about suicide, study says	Euro News	August 26, 2025
AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn	The Guardian	August 3, 2025
‘It saved my life.’ The people turning to AI for therapy	Reuters	August 23, 2025
Instagram’s AI Chatbots Lie About Being Licensed Therapists	404 Media	April 29, 2025
National Eating Disorders Association takes its AI chatbot offline after complaints of ‘harmful’ advice	CNN	June 1, 2023
Using an AI chatbot for therapy or health advice? Experts want you to know these 4 things	PBS	August 21, 2025
Texas attorney general accuses Meta, Character.AI of misleading kids with mental health claims	Tech Crunch	August 18, 2025
Illinois blocks AI from being your therapist	Axios	August 6, 2025
Helpline workers for the National Eating Disorder Association say they are being replaced by AI	Business Insider	May 26, 2023
Chatbots Can Trigger a Mental Health Crisis. What to Know About ‘AI Psychosis’	Time	August 5, 2025
Performance of mental health chatbot agents in detecting and managing suicidal ideation	Nature	August 27, 2025
In a lonely world, widespread AI chatbots and ‘companions’ pose unique psychological risks	The Conversation	August 28, 2025
California parents sue OpenAI for wrongful death over teen’s suicide	San Francisco Chronicle	August 26, 2025
The Problem With Mental Health Bots	Wired	October 1, 2022
‘He checks in on me more than my friends and family’: can AI therapists do better than the real thing?	The Guardian	March 2, 2024
Exploring the Dangers of AI in Mental Health Care	Stanford University	June 11, 2025
Ready or not, AI chatbots are here to help with Gen Z’s mental health struggles	AP News	March 23, 2024
The Chatbot Therapist Will See You Now	Wired	June 7, 2017
Why Woebot, a pioneering therapy chatbot, shut down	Stat News	July 2, 2025
‘Therapist’ chatbots pose danger to children, counsellors warn	The Times	August 25, 2025
Replika wanted to end loneliness with a lurid AI bot. Then its users revolted.	SF Gate	April 27, 2023
Your Next Therapist Could Be an AI Chatbot—But Should They Be?	Prevention	June 20, 2025
\‘It’s Hurting Like Hell’: AI Companion Users Are In Crisis, Reporting Sudden Sexual Rejection	Vice	February 15, 2023
People are greiving the ‘death’ of their AI lovers after chatbot app abruptly shut down	Business Insider	October 20, 2023
What happens when your AI chatbot stops loving you back?	Reuters	March 21, 2023
How AI Could Shape Our Relationships and Social Interactions	Psychology Today	March 7, 2025
OpenAI finds own product ChatGPT linked to more loneliness, social isolation	Economic Times	March 25, 2025
AI companions claim to help with loneliness — but they might make it worse	Deseret News	February 13, 2025
Asked for Products to Kill Yourself With, Amazon’s AI Says “You Are Not Alone” and Hallucinates an Incorrect Phone Number for a Suicide Hotline	Futurism	February 11, 2025
Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence	Futurism	May 1, 2025
Paging doctor bot: Why AI therapy is providing hope in the midst of a mental health crisis	Euro News	December 19, 2024
Why ChatGPT Shouldn’t Be Your Therapist	Scientific American	August 13, 2025
AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn	The Guardian	August 3, 2025
ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania, psychosis and death – and OpenAI doesn’t know how to stop it	Independent	July 28, 2025
Using Generative AI for therapy might feel like a lifeline – but there’s danger in seeking certainty in a chatbot	The Guardian	August 3, 2025
Illinois blocks AI from being your therapist	Axios	August 6, 2025
The Reality of Instant AI Therapy	Psychology Today	August 22, 2025
Illinois’ ban on AI therapy won’t stop people from asking chatbots for help	Popular Science	August 6, 2025
Big, beautiful bill’ passes Senate without AI-law moratorium	NBC News	June 27, 2025
AI and mental healthcare: ethical and regulatory considerations	UK Parliment	January 31, 2025
Guidance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use with Mental Health and Substance Use Health Care	Mental Health Commission of Canada	January 29, 2025
Man ends his life after an AI chatbot ‘encouraged’ him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change	Euro News	March 31, 2023

Privacy Episode (Aug. 11, 2025)

Headline	Source	Date
Formal Opinion 512 – Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools	American Bar Association	July 29, 2024
Exploring the Intersections of Privacy and Generative AI: A Dive Into Attorney-Client Privilege and ChatGPT	American Bar Association	Spring 2024
The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats	Wired	June 12, 2025
Meta AI searches made public – but do all its users realise?	BBC News	June 13, 2025
The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster	Tech Crunch	June 12, 2025
We uncovered how Meta’s AI app was full of accidental public posts that were really personal. It’s now trying to fix that.	Business Insider	June 16, 2025
I don’t like the idea of my conversations with Meta AI being public – here’s how you can opt out	Tech Radar	June 18, 2025
AI ‘wingman’ app leaks 160,000 screenshots of private chats – here’s what we know	Tech Radar	July 15, 2025
McDonald’s AI Breach Reveals The Dark Side Of Automated Recruitment	Forbes	July 15, 2025
ChatGPT Agent shows that there’s a whole new world of AI security threats on the way we need to worry about	Tech Radar	July 18, 2025
Samsung Bans ChatGPT Among Employees After Sensitive Code Leak	Forbes	May 2, 2023
Woeful Lack of Training for Chatbot Use in Workplace	National Law Review	October 3, 2024
I Trusted AI With Confidential Info — And It Came Back to Haunt Me	Entrepreneur	May 2, 2025
Swipe right – but watch your data: Dating app hit with AI privacy complaint	Euro News	June 26, 2025
For privacy and security, think twice before granting AI access to your personal data	Tech Crunch	July 19, 2025
OpenAI removes ChatGPT feature after private conversations leak to Google search	Venture Beat	July 31, 2025
Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI	Venture Beat	September 26, 2023
Meta AI app marks private chats as public, raising privacy concerns	MSN	June 13, 2025
70+ Password Statistics for 2025	SpaceLift	July 10, 2025
Now Serving	McDonald’s	—

Legal Research Episode (Aug. 4, 2025)

Headline	Source	Date
Trump’s early actions imperil efforts to improve AI’s performance in medicine	Stat News	March 6, 2025
Are AI models ‘woke’? The answer isn’t so simple	CNN	July 24, 2025
No ‘woke AI’ in Washington, Trump says as he launches American AI action plan	CNBC	July 24, 2025
Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government	The White House	July 23, 2025
Trump Bans ‘Woke AI’ From Federal Contracts in New Executive Order	Decrypt	July 24, 2025
Trump’s new AI policies keep culture war focus on tech companies	NPR	July 23, 2025
Elon Musk appears to have tweaked X’s algorithm to promote Trump, study claims	Independent	November 4, 2024
TikTok Users Report Anti-Trump Content Being Hidden Following Platform’s Unbanning	Forbes	January 22, 2025
Trump’s AI Action Plan gives AI industry lots to smile about	Axios	July 24, 2025
Trump signs executive orders targeting ‘woke’ AI models and regulation	The Guardian	July 23, 2025
Trump’s order to block ‘woke’ AI in government encourages tech giants to censor their chatbots	AP News	July 25, 2025
What’s in Trump’s new AI policy and why it matters	PBS	July 23, 2025
Meta Faces Backlash As Democrat-Related Terms Disappear From Instagram	Forbes	January 21, 2025
Sen. Markey Urges AI Companies to Reject Trump’s Unconstitutional “Anti-Woke” AI Actions	Ed Markey	July 23, 2025
xAI updated Grok to be more ‘politically incorrect’	The Verge	July 8, 2025
Trump is already trying to put his stamp on AI	CNN	February 28, 2025
Is AI chatbot Grok censoring criticism of Elon Musk and Donald Trump?	Euro News	March 3, 2025
Erotica, gore and racism: how America’s war on ‘ideological bias’ is letting AI off the leash	The Conversation	February 24, 2025
Elon Musk says he’ll create ‘TruthGPT’ to counter AI ‘bias’	AP News	April 18, 2023
Growing number of federal health agencies are combing grants for taboo words, unnerving researchers	Stat News	February 13, 2025
Grok 3.5 AI Will Delete “Garbage” From Human Knowledge, Musk Declares	CryptoRank	June 23, 2025
Musk wants Grok AI to ‘rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge’	Coin Telegraph	June 23, 2025
Federal Government’s Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship	Pen America	May 28, 2025
The List of Trump’s Forbidden Words That Will Get Your Paper Flagged at NSF	Gizmodo	February 5, 2025
South Park’s Creators Are Now Billionaires	Forbes	July 25, 2025
Saying ‘women’ is not allowed, but ‘men’ and ‘white’ are OK? I’m (not) shocked	The Guardian	February 15, 2025
‘Clean water,’ ‘equity,’ ‘microplastics’ and other words banned in leaked USDA memo	Investigate Midwest	April 7, 2025
Teen artists portrayed their lives — some adults didn’t want to see the full picture	NPR	July 28, 2025
In Trump’s Washington, Words Become Weaponized	NY Times	February 11, 2025
Race’, ‘Equity’ Removed From Uni Course Titles To Comply With Texas DEI Ban Faculty Say	Dallas News	November 14, 2025
Elon Musk Signals ‘Woke AI’ as a Trump Administration Target	Wired	October 30, 2024
Phrases Newly Banned At USDA Include ‘Safe Drinking Water’ and ‘Climate Change,’ Leaked Memo Reveals	Sentient Media	April 3, 2025
Navigating DEIA Language Mandates: A Practical Guide for Public Health Policy Professionals	This Week In Public Health	March 24, 2025
Exclusive: FDA staffers told that ‘woman,’ ‘disabled’ among banned words; White House says it’s an error	Reuter	February 20, 2025
Defining Equity: Distinctive and Constrained?	Reason	June 3, 2025
‘Clean Water,’ ‘Equity,’ ‘Microplastics’ and Other Words Banned in Leaked USDA Memo	Barn Raiser	April 3, 2025
Equity — Definition and Citations:	The Law Dictionary	—
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, started calling itself ‘MechaHitler’	NPR	July 9, 2025
Former President Donald Trump said he doesn’t like the term ‘woke.’ Here’s what it means.	USA Today	June 2, 2025
Inside Grok’s ‘War on woke’	Business Insider	February 28, 2025
Grok 4 seems to consult Elon Musk to answer controversial questions	Tech Crunch	July 10, 2025
Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models	Tech Crunch	July 23, 2025
Trump signs executive orders targeting ‘woke’ AI models and regulation	The Guardian	July 23, 2025
Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias	Wired	July 25, 2025
Federal list of forbidden words may jeopardize research at UCSD	KPBS	February 7, 2025