Here is my recent Daily Record column. My past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. **** Pre-Trial AI Tools For Lawyers I often receive emails from lawyers who reach out after having read one of my articles about generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools. They frequently seek advice about implementing AI software in their firm. Some focus on ethics and accuracy concerns, while others ask for my input on which tools to use to address a workflow issue in their firm. These communications can sometimes inspire me to write articles about a specific type of AI software since it’s a...

From Goldman to Sequoia, investors are questioning whether the massive investment in AI will ever pay off.

Here is my recent Daily Record column. My past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. **** New Report Highlights GenAI Adoption Trends in Law For legal professionals facing an ever-evolving technology landscape shaped by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, data-driven decisions are the key to successful adaptation. Because change is occurring quickly, up-to-date information is key. That’s where the Thomson Reuters Institute 2024 Generative AI in Professional Services Report comes in. This report highlights how professionals, including lawyers, view and use generative AI (GenAI). It offers insights into legal professionals’ attitudes and adoption rates and provides law firm leaders...

AI and automation may help enterprises transition to four-day workweeks by promoting asynchronous work, optimizing the exchange of information, and minimizing low-level tasks.

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Businesses are rushing into GenAI before establishing adequate systems of governance, which could result in serious issues with quality and compliance down the road.

Legal departments are navigating an increasingly dynamic and complex legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape.

In law firms, AI has been particularly impactful by making document management and analysis processes more efficient.

The promise of AI is alluring — optimized productivity, lightning-fast data analysis, and freedom from mundane tasks — and both companies and workers alike are fascinated (and more than a little dumbfounded) by how these tools allow them to do more and better work faster than ever before. Yet in fervor to keep pace with competitors and reap the efficiency gains associated with deploying AI, many organizations have lost sight of their most important asset: the humans whose jobs are being fragmented into tasks that are increasingly becoming automated. Across four studies, employees who use it as a core part of their jobs reported feeling lonelier, drinking more, and suffering from insomnia more than employees who don’t.

It’s just like adults to be constantly diagnosing the wrong thing in trying to “save the children.” Over the last couple of years there’s been a mostly nonsense moral panic claiming that the teen m…

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The rapid increase and sophisticated use of AI-generated deepfakes to conduct fraud, spread misinformation, and create cybersecurity threats. This story also covers efforts to combat this growing issue.

By Anonymous. Lawyers make mistakes. That’s why they take out professional liability insurance. This raises the question in the wake of the Stanford University study into the accuracy of Thomson Re…

A new legal ethics opinion on the use of generative AI in law practice makes one point very clear: lawyers are required to maintain competence across all technological means relevant to their practice...

Some data centers need as much energy as a small city, turning companies that promised a clean energy future into some of the most insatiable guzzlers of power

I had a great time presenting about AI at the 2024 State Bar of Michigan's Great Lakes Legal Conference last week. It was cool to have four Michigan

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”  The Queen

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Generative AI is without doubt the most powerful technology to be applied to the legal sector since the arrival of digital tools, yet it has a serious challenge: accuracy. If legal genAI is to beco…

Generative AI hallucinates but do you know why? Get ahead of 99% of people with the science behind why AI makes up stuff.

Microsoft promises changes to Recall after security concerns.

Windows Recall takes a screenshot every five seconds. Cybersecurity researchers say the system is simple to abuse—and one ethical hacker has already built a tool to show how easy it really is.

In a proposal he said “many will reflexively condemn as heresy,” Judge Kevin Newsom suggests that those who follow an “ordinary meaning” approach to law should consider how AI-powered LLMs such as ChatGPT can “inform the interpretive analysis.”

Where I explain what prompt engineering is and why it's important to more than GenAI.

Solo and small firm lawyers intend to adopt artificial intelligence at a much faster pace than their larger-firm counterparts, but their clients are even more enthusiastic about the technology, believ...