Every employee is probably learning about AI because their job demands it, learning new features after new features of the tools they use to do their job, learning new systems that get rolled out every year, and dealing with technological change at a ridiculous pace.
Then, we make them responsible for learning how to stay
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Worth Reading – The great AI delusion is falling apart
This reminded me of something I’ve long wondered about some of the measurements provided by fans of AI – the processes that take so much less time than they used to. Are they looking at the whole picture? I know that sales demos do not. They’ll claim to have created an entire business plan in…
Worth Reading – AI Is Killing The Billable Hour (And It’s About Time)
For lawyers and other professionals, billing hours is indeed a dumb approach. It hasn’t made sense in years. If AI finally pushes that out of our way, we’ll owe it thanks for that alone. I don’t think AI is good enough to do work on its own, though, so the question then becomes, what are…
Worth Reading – Poor mental health is driving young people out of their jobs. My own journey showed me how to help
Then, when the labor market pendulum swings back the other way and there aren’t enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that it turns out AI can’t do, these same workplaces will come out talking about how they’ve always supported worker mental health, they even have an EAP hotline for workers!
Could you not buy…
Worth Reading – AI is turbocharging worker productivity but it’s also wreaking havoc on their mental health
It’s the classic conundrum for workers. If you’re the most productive member of your team, what’s your reward?
More work.
If you’re the most productive member of your team using AI, what’s your reward?
More work, while being more isolated, to work with the AI.
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Worth Reading – AI Blackouts Are Coming: How Law Firms Can Maintain Enterprise Operations During Agent Grid Failure 2025
Perhaps we should include a bullet point or two in our business continuity plans for addressing AI outages. Of course, we might also consider the continuity plan for AI tools, or any SAAS solution, going under as well. It’s just good risk management.
How much of your AI work would be negatively impacted by even…
Worth Reading – Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default
This is the logical next step in the escalating conflict between website publishers and AI scrapers.
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Worth Reading – The AI Strategy Divide in Law: Thomson Reuters Survey Says Strategic AI Adoption Is the Key to AI Success
The challenge, of course, is who is driving the strategy? If firm leadership isn’t driving it, you could wind up with AI adoption being pushed from the ground up, and strategic decisions being left to IT personnel or a Tech committee that lacks the authority to make those decisions. In the vacuum of leadership on…
Worth Reading – This Isn’t Law and Order. It’s Narrative Control.
I don’t particularly care what side of the political aisle you’re on. If we can’t all agree that using fake images and videos in situations like this is beyond the pale, we are sunk. If law enforcement can create evidence and get away with it, no one is free.
We are all one image away…
The Key to Spotting Deepfakes is Deliberately Slowing Down
In a second, most people can spot obvious AI distortions. Given a few more seconds, we get even better at it. Slowing down to look at it instead of immediately reacting impacts our ability to spot falsehoods.
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