AI News, 30 October 2026

Friday 30 October

Psychologists issue warning over ‘harmful’ mental health advice from AI chatbots

AI-generated summary The British Psychological Society released a survey revealing that psychologists noted a 49% increase in patients seeking mental health support from chatbots in the past year. The British Psychological Society warns that unregulated open access artificial intelligence chatbots provide unqualified and harmful advice that negatively affects client wellbeing.

More than half of Victorian lawyers use AI – but only a quarter have cut client fees as a result

AI-generated summary Research released by the Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner finds that more than half of Victorian lawyers are now using artificial intelligence in their legal practices. Only a quarter of those surveyed lawyers have cut client fees as a result of efficiency gains, while many report that client use of AI has increased their workload.

Start With One

AI-generated summary jonathannen.com rolled out an autonomous process where an agent merged a minor patch bump change to production with no human in the loop. The system allowed the change to merge because unit tests covered it, deployments were cheap, rollbacks were easy, and observability was sufficient.

Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control

AI-generated summary AVEVA has available living digital twins that combine dynamic digital representations of complex operations with the capacity to intervene in the physical world through control systems. Human judgment and operator oversight continue to play an instrumental role by defining acceptable operating limits and monitoring what the artificial intelligence is doing.