AI has no reason to exist on its own. Yet, it can sometimes feel like the purpose of AI is simply to enable you to have AI tools at your disposal. Or alternatively we can get bogged down in finding…
AI in Law Firms: Ethics Committees Are Clearing the Path Forward
Here is my recent Daily Record column. My past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. **** AI in Law Firms: Ethics Committees Are Clearing the Path Forward Whenever new technologies become available to lawyers, ethical concerns initially pose a significant hurdle to adoption. This friction is understandable. Legal professionals are necessarily cautious about tinkering with trusted legal workflows and processes, sometimes resulting in a reluctance to embrace new and innovative ways of working. Our clients trust us with highly sensitive information, and we have an obligation to ensure that confidentiality is not compromised when implementing new software. We rely...
The Hidden Cost of AI: Energy, Water, and the Sustainability Challenge
AI’s energy and water demands are rising, straining global resources and raising sustainability concerns. Discover how AI’s rapid expansion is impacting the environment, the regulatory responses taking shape, and the corporate initiatives aiming to make AI more sustainable.
Key Discovery Points: No Need to Be Leery About AI
In this Key Discovery Points video, Brett Burney of Nextpoint joins Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today to discuss litigator Craig Ball's latest publication, The...
The Human Edge: How AI Can Assist But Never Replace
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) elicits both wonder and concern, as people fear it may surpass or replace human capabilities. However, this fear often arises from misconceptions about AI. …
The social media platform known for its professionalism has slipped into the same type of shadiness as other platforms when it comes to training AI models. This time LinkedIn is facing a class-action lawsuit for allegedly scraping InMail content from its Premium Subscribers.
Employees Enter Sensitive Data Into GenAI Prompts Too Often
The propensity for users to enter customer data, source code, employee benefits information, financial data, and more into ChatGPT, Copilot, and others is racking up real risk for enterprises.
A practical guide for trial lawyers who want to try out AI LLMs (ChatGPT-4) in their practice and including simple-to-follow instructions and prompt examples.
Report from Thomson Reuters and Georgetown Law Says 2024 Was the Beginning of the End for the Traditional Law Firm Business Model
In their annual report on the state of the U.S. legal market, Thomson Reuters and the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law say that 2024 was a pivotal year for law firms, markin...
OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025
Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training
AI's Role in Legal Practice: High-End and Middle Ground
I spent the month of November doing what I called an "AI Sprint," in which I experimented with a lot of new approaches and tried generating new types of