From Deepfakes to Digital Doubt: How AI Is Challenging the Future of Evidence
Discover how generative AI and deepfakes are challenging the authenticity of digital evidence, raising concerns for courts, legal professionals, and cybersecurity experts in the age of "deep doubt.
Technology Competence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Here is my recent Daily Record column. My past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. **** Technology Competence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence With technology evolving so quickly, powered by the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools, keeping pace with change becomes all the more critical. For lawyers, the ethical requirement of maintaining technology competence plays a large part in that endeavor. The duty of technology competence is relatively broad, and the obligations required by this ethical rule can sometimes be unclear, especially when applied to emerging technologies like AI. Rule 1.1 states that a “lawyer...
Today artificial intelligence can be harnessed by nearly anyone, using commands in everyday language instead of code. Soon it will transform more than 40% of all work activity, according to the authors’ research. In this new era of collaboration between humans and machines, the ability to leverage AI effectively will be critical to your professional success. This article describes the three kinds of “fusion skills” you need to get the best results from gen AI. Intelligent interrogation involves instructing large language models to perform in ways that generate better outcomes—by, say, breaking processes down into steps or visualizing multiple potential paths to a solution. Judgment integration is about incorporating expert and ethical human discernment to make AI’s output more trustworthy, reliable, and accurate. It entails augmenting a model’s training sources with authoritative knowledge bases when necessary, keeping biases out of prompts, ensuring the privacy of any data used by the models, and scrutinizing suspect output. With reciprocal apprenticing, you tailor gen AI to your company’s specific business context by including rich organizational data and know-how into the commands you give it. As you become better at doing that, you yourself learn how to train the AI to tackle more-sophisticated challenges. The AI revolution is already here. Learning these three skills will prepare you to thrive in it.
Here is my recent Daily Record column. My past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. **** Legal Ethics in the AI Era: The NYC Bar Weighs In Since November 2022, when the release of ChatGPT was first announced, many jurisdictions have released AI guidance. In this column, I’ve covered the advice rendered by many state ethics committees, including California, Florida, New Jersey, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, the American Bar Association, and most recently, Virginia. Now, the New York City Bar Association has entered the ring, issuing Formal Ethics Opinion 2024-5 on August 7th. The New York City Bar...
Practical and Adaptable AI Guidance Arrives From the Virginia State Bar
Here is my recent Daily Record column. My past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. **** Practical and Adaptable AI Guidance Arrives From the Virginia State Bar If you're concerned about the ethical issues surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the good news is that there's no shortage of guidance. A wealth of resources, guidelines, and recommendations are now available to help you navigate these concerns. Traditionally, bar associations have taken years to analyze the ethical implications of new and emerging technologies. However, generative AI has reversed this trend. Ethics guidance has emerged far more quickly, which is a very...
Spellbook Launches Associate: ‘First Full-Fledged’ Legal AI Agent
Spellbook, a pioneer in legal genAI, has launched ‘the first full-fledged AI agent’ for legal work. The agentic capability, branded ‘Associate’, aims to eliminate drudgery and unlock a new level of…
As we enter the Age of Accessible Law, a wave of new demand is coming our way — but AI will meet most of the surge. What will be left for lawyers? Just the most valuable and irreplaceable role in law.
Twenty years ago, I dreamed up a website where you would submit a list of eDiscovery keywords and queries and the site would critique the searches and suggest improvements to make them more efficie…
Yesterday, I sought to defend the value of my law school course on E-Discovery & Digital Evidence to a law Dean who readily conceded that she didn’t know what e-discovery was or why it would be…
A third of AI projects will be abandoned by businesses by the end of next year
Around 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned by businesses by the end of 2025, Gartner has predicted, as they struggle to find a business use case for them, or find them too expensive.
IT leaders worry the rush to adopt Gen AI may have tech infrastructure repercussions
As pressure to harness generative AI to its full potential mounts, IT decision-makers are questioning whether their current network infrastructure is equipped to handle the growing demand.