Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 38 minutes ago
Campbell Brown is the CEO of Forum AI. Brown joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how AI models should handle sensitive information involving news, politics, medicine, and mental health. Tune in to hear how experts can evaluate chatbots for accuracy, bias, source quality, and context, and why independent standards will be essential as people increasingly trust AI’s answers. We also cover AI’s threat to the journalism business, the limits of expert consensus, chatbot sycophancy, election misinformation, and the rise of AI companions. Hit play for a nuanced conversation about who should decide what AI tells us when the stakes are highest.
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Chapters:
00:00 How AI Should Handle Controversial Information
02:41 AI’s Threat to Journalism
10:33 Why Meta’s Publisher Strategy Failed
14:26 Why People Trust AI Answers
18:46 The Need for Independent AI Evaluation
22:04 AI’s Problem With Unreliable Sources
23:34 How Forum AI Tests Chatbots
27:33 Vaccines, Medicine, and Expert Consensus
31:14 When Experts Get It Wrong
36:53 AI and Mental Health Safety
43:03 Should Chatbots Challenge Political Bias?
50:30 Sycophancy and AI Companions
Campbell Brown is the CEO of Forum AI. Brown joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss how AI models should handle sensitive information involving news, politics, medicine, and mental health. Tune in to hear how experts can evaluate chatbots for accuracy, bias, source quality, and context, and why independent standards will be essential as people increasingly trust AI’s answers. We also cover AI’s threat to the journalism business, the limits of expert consensus, chatbot sycophancy, election misinformation, and the rise of AI companions. Hit play for a nuanced conversation about who should decide what AI tells us when the stakes are highest.
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Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice.
Watch the full documentary here: gravitee.io/ai-agent-documentary
Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b
Chapters:
00:00 How AI Should Handle Controversial Information
02:41 AI’s Threat to Journalism
10:33 Why Meta’s Publisher Strategy Failed
14:26 Why People Trust AI Answers
18:46 The Need for Independent AI Evaluation
22:04 AI’s Problem With Unreliable Sources
23:34 How Forum AI Tests Chatbots
27:33 Vaccines, Medicine, and Expert Consensus
31:14 When Experts Get It Wrong
36:53 AI and Mental Health Safety
43:03 Should Chatbots Challenge Political Bias?
50:30 Sycophancy and AI Companions
