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How can the appropriate use of AI in courts and transparency? UNESCO‘s new guidelines for AI in courts highlight three critical risks : 1) Private companies controlling judicial tools focus on profit, not fairness, 2) There are subtle manipulation opportunities through biased AI outputs and 3) There may be public and legislative pressure on…

Off to Las Vegas for my 7th year covering CES, where the AI hype machine often runs at full throttle. I’m going to try to separate substance from noise and get an idea of trends and issues that may impact legal.

I’ll be especially interested in the gaps between vendor promises and implementation reality. Will…

Here’s a scenario could become routine: You’re in trial, opposing counsel shows a video that’s damaging to your client, but your gut says something’s not quite right. What do you do? How should the Court approach it?

There’s a good new University of Colorado study on deepfakes and video evidence. Even though we talk about…

Imagine this: You’re on deadline, procrastinated on research (don’t judge), and ChatGPT that you counted on to help suddenly dies. That was my Nov 18. Turns out the Cloudflare outage revealed some uncomfortable truths about tech dependency and cybersecurity gaps. Maybe lawyers  and legal professionals need to pump the brakes on wholesale AI adoption. And…

Traditional law firms vs. tech-affiliated AI-first firms: The future may not be what we think it is. Blackstone recently invested  in the legal tech complinace vendor Norm AI, which then immediately launched its own law firm offering “AI-native legal services.” We’re starting to see tech companies create captive law firms to deliver legal services at…

Back from Summit AI in NYC with some hard questions still unanswered. While 5,000+ attendees celebrated AI’s potential, critical discussions about infrastructure challenges, verification economics, and workforce displacement were largely missing. My ten takeaways from a conference that felt more like an AI love fest than a serious examination of where we’re headed. Legal professionals…

Business leaders from Unilever, EY, and NBC Universal shared a consistent message at the AI Summit: embrace the ‘I don’t know’ and think holistically about AI transformation.

The contrast with how most law firms approach AI couldn’t be more striking. While other industries talk about reimagining entire workflows, legal still treats AI as something to…

A new Washington Post analysis of 47,000 ChatGPT conversations reveals a troubling pattern. People are sharing deeply personal information, getting advice that tells them what they want to hear (not necessarily what’s accurate), and creating potential discovery goldmines for future litigation.

The study found users discussing emotions, sharing PII and medical info, and asking for…