Many friends and colleagues in the legal technology world have been telling me I need to start vibe coding. My answer is that in vibe coding, you are intentionally surrendering the control plane. That is not a tradeoff I am willing to make.Let me explain why that is a principle, not a preference, and why
One Algorithm, Three Standards: AI Patent Eligibility Across the UK, EPO, and U.S.
Artificial intelligence may be global, but patent eligibility remains stubbornly local. A recent decision out of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom seems to have nudged UK practice for computer-implemented inventions closer to the approach historically taken by the European Patent Office. The decision lowers the threshold for exclusion from patentability, reducing the likelihood
The Power of Water: AI’s Hidden Thirst and the Quest for Liquid Efficiency
When we discuss the infrastructural demands of the artificial intelligence boom, the conversation almost immediately defaults to the electrical grid. We talk in gigawatts and megawatt-hours. But behind every headline about AI’s power hunger lies an equally critical, yet vastly under-discussed, resource challenge: water.
At The Washington Post’s Building America: Powering the AI Age summit,
More Transparency Not Police Reporting: Navigating the Safety-Privacy Balance for AI ChatBots
My Globe and Mail op-ed begins by noting that AI Minister Evan Solomon summoned executives from OpenAI to Ottawa last week to explain why the company declined to alert police that it had flagged the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the Tumbler Ridge shooter who killed eight people earlier this month. The company stopped short
The Long Session Trap
There is a design contradiction at the center of how high-reasoning AI tools work, and it is worth naming precisely.The promise is leverage: brief, high-intent sessions. You bring the question, the tool brings the synthesis, and you leave with more than you arrived with. That is the value proposition.Here is what often happens instead. You
From access to understanding: making legal information usable in the age of AI
For more than two decades, the legal world has celebrated a major achievement: open access to law. Judgments are available online. Legislation is searchable. The idea that primary legal materials should be publicly available on the internet is no longer controversial in most jurisdictions. But availability is not the same as usability.
A database full
The Justice Matchmaker: Kristen Sonday
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 60th episode of the LawDroid Manifesto podcast, where I will be continuing to interview key legal innovators to learn how they do what they do. I think you’re going to enjoy this one!If you want to understand how technology is transforming the pro
Who’s Working for Whom?
We pay AI tools to do the hard work, like the synthesis, the heavy lifting, and the cognitive labor we do not have time for. What we often get instead is a tool that produces a decent first draft and then hands the real work back to us.Not just the hard work. The administrative work,
Save It For Later
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I have been thinking a lot about the resilience of this website. Over time, I have stopped linking to live copies of resources because they disappear. I have been blogging for over 20 years and there are still people looking at posts I did early on where every resource I linked
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 259: The Privacy and Surveillance Risks of AI Chatbot Reporting to Police
Over the past ten days, Canada has witnessed one of the fastest-moving technology policy debates in recent memory. What began as reporting about a tragic act of violence – the shootings in Tumbler Ridge, BC – quickly evolved into questions about AI safety, corporate responsibility, police reporting obligations, and now potential AI regulation.
This week’s