Computerworld.com reported that “New research shows how easily manipulated people are by AI tools, especially when they’re designed to manipulate. Knowledge is the only defense.” The August 18, 2025 article entitled “Puny humans are no match for AI” (https://www.computerworld.com/article/4040468/puny-humans-are-no-match-for-ai.html) included these comments about AI that stealth advertises:
Science editors at Frontiers in Psychology this month
Hey there Legal Rebels! 👋 I’m excited to share with you the 32nd episode of the 2025 season 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
At the AI+ Science Summit in Washington, D.C., the panel “Science is National Security” brought together thought leaders from government, industry, and the innovation economy to address a quietly radical thesis: scientific leadership has become the essential pillar of twenty first century power, as crucial to a nation’s security as the traditional tools of statecraft.
In this episode of The Geek in Review, we welcome back Pablo Arredondo, VP of CoCounsel at Thomson Reuters, along with Joel Hron, the company’s CTO. The conversation centers on the recent release of ChatGPT-5 and the rise of “reasoning models” that go beyond traditional language models’ limitations. Pablo reflects on his years
The recent picture above by Lynn Hsu in The New Yorker magazine depicts a lost opportunity for me.When I moved to the Midwest nearly 30 years ago, I should have bought some farmland that I could now sell to BigTech for big money to house their AI data centers!Of course, tech companies are making massive
Author’s Note: After I wrote this column, but a couple of days before it was published, Open AI upgraded its GPT Chatbot from version 4 to version 5. Among the negative reactions to the change was a sense that ChatGPT-5’s artificial personality had becomes more distant and less complimentary. As you’ll see below, I don’t think
DarkReading.com reported that “The US banned the sale of AI chips to China and then backed off. Now, Chinese sources are calling on NVIDIA to prove its AI chips have no backdoors. Chipmakers Nvidia and Advance Micro Devices continue to face challenges in shipping advanced AI processors to China, with both national security and hardware
At a legal tech conference in San Francisco, I overheard two lawyers’ conversation: “Between you and me, I’ve cut my brief-writing time in half using Claude.” The other nodded, then added with a conspiratorial whisper and a wink: “My senior partner just thinks I’m a quick editor.” It reminded me of another conversation, at a
The Wednesday ILTA sessions kicked off with a Keynote from Reena SenGupta, Founder of RSGI Limited. The topic “Helping the Legal Industry to Create a Sustainable Future” bravely tackled the topic AI’s impact on the transformation of law firms.
Gupta identified seven transitions in the practice of law required for a