The Record — design proposal, v0.1 draft

A public register of deaths and serious harms linked to conversational AI. Scoped to be hosted by the World Health Organization. Open for reader comment today.

Nothing has changed since April: the CDC has no field, the FDA carves general-purpose chatbots out, the FTC's inquiry is a study, state attorneys general prosecute individual cases, Wikipedia's volunteers anonymize the dead, and the vendors publish prevalence but never mortality. The AMA asked Congress for an adverse-event registry seventy-nine days ago and has received no response.

This document is the first artifact of a proposal for what should exist instead. It aggregates one hundred and fifteen user stories from eleven personas, from the parent who lost a child to the vendor's legal counsel to the coroner submitting an official verdict, and asks whether the design covers what your work requires.

Read the personas. Tell us what a persona missed. Add your own.

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