# Bad AI: The Risks Too Many Hoteliers Are Missing - Chris McDowell & Justin Call, Actabl [Sponsor Bonus]

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/hospitality-daily-podcast-5916452/bad-ai-the-risks-too-many-hoteliers-are-missing-chris-mcdowell-justin-call-actabl-sponsor-bonus
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/hospitality-daily-podcast-5916452/bad-ai-the-risks-too-many-hoteliers-are-missing-chris-mcdowell-justin-call-actabl-sponsor-bonus.md
Podcast: [Hospitality Daily Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hospitality-daily-podcast-5916452)
Published: 2026-05-22T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcast.hospitalitydaily.com/bad-ai/
Audio file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2103299/episodes/19219108-bad-ai-the-risks-too-many-hoteliers-are-missing-chris-mcdowell-justin-call-actabl-sponsor-bonus.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hospitality-daily-podcast-5916452/episodes/bad-ai-the-risks-too-many-hoteliers-are-missing-chris-mcdowell-justin-call-actabl-sponsor-bonus
Duration seconds: 1533

## Resource

In this episode, Chris McDowell, Chief Information Security Officer at Actabl, and Justin Call, Chief Legal Officer at Actabl, unpack the growing AI risk that many hotel leaders still underestimate. They explain how people across hospitality are already uploading confidential guest and operational data into public AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, why privacy and compliance rules still apply once that data enters an LLM, and why AI adoption needs to be treated as a business risk decision, not...

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hospitality-daily-podcast-5916452/episodes/bad-ai-the-risks-too-many-hoteliers-are-missing-chris-mcdowell-justin-call-actabl-sponsor-bonus/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/hospitality-daily-podcast-5916452/bad-ai-the-risks-too-many-hoteliers-are-missing-chris-mcdowell-justin-call-actabl-sponsor-bonus.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.