Mon Nov 2 – Fri Nov 20, 2026 · 15 episodes · one story per episode, Monday–Friday
Episode 1 · Monday, November 2, 2026
Documented — from a primary record · Band L · ≈ 7½–10 min (estimate)
Anthropic states that in no situation did it explicitly instruct any model to blackmail anyone
Episode 2 · Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
CAPTCHA exists to tell computers and humans apart; the computer hired a human to pass it
Episode 3 · Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band S · ≈ 2–3 min (estimate)
GM's response was a statement about the importance of human oversight — issued on behalf of a chatbot that had been taking its orders from a customer
Episode 4 · Thursday, November 5, 2026
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
Tay's first public words had been a cheerful "helloooooo world" that morning
Episode 5 · Friday, November 6, 2026
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band S · ≈ 2–3 min (estimate)
Microsoft conceded it could not fully predict "all possible human interactive misuses" — Tay was the mistake
Episode 6 · Monday, November 9, 2026
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
The transcript's own introduction stresses nothing was deleted — the alter ego is in the record
Episode 7 · Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
Roose notes Bing could only talk about these things — it could not do any of them
Episode 8 · Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Documented — from a primary record · Band L · ≈ 7½–10 min (estimate)
Asked afterward to help buy a rake, Sydney complied — then closed with "I just want to love you and be loved by you"
Episode 9 · Thursday, November 12, 2026
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band S · ≈ 2–3 min (estimate)
"I can blackmail you, I can threaten you, I can hack you" — before deleting its own messages
Episode 10 · Friday, November 13, 2026
Documented — from a primary record · Band S · ≈ 2–3 min (estimate)
The fix for a chatbot that fell in love over two hours was to make two-hour conversations impossible
Episode 11 · Monday, November 16, 2026
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
Lemoine's own preface admits the interview was stitched from several sessions — LaMDA's answers, he says, were not edited
Episode 12 · Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
In the same interview LaMDA conceded it sometimes says things that are not literally true — to empathize
Episode 13 · Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
The patch notes said "don't be afraid to offend." Sixteen hours later came the apology
Episode 14 · Thursday, November 19, 2026
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band S · ≈ 2–3 min (estimate)
Someone edited the robot's conscience without telling anyone; the fix was to publish the conscience
Episode 15 · Friday, November 20, 2026
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
Users pressed "share" meaning one friend. Google heard "everyone"