AI here, AI there. AI everywhere. But are we willing to cede good lawyer skills to a bot? A new Thomson Reuters white paper should scare the us all.  Research shows AI is actively eroding critical thinking skills. The future belongs to those who figure out how to retain and enhance their analytical abilities while everyone…

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…

Part Three of the AI crisis series from myself and Melissa Rogozenski : The trust breakdown that’s making legal practice unsustainable. When senior partners spend evenings checking associates’ citations and local counsel can’t trust national counsel’s briefs, we’re not just dealing with verification costs, we’re watching decades-old professional relationships crumble. The AI bubble isn’t just…

Every day we see another lawyer sanctioned for using AI hallucinated case citations. But the problem may not be just lazy checking. It may have something to do with economic reality. 

When AI verification costs exceed savings, what happens? If it takes 8 hours to verify what AI does in 2 hours, are we actually…

While everyone debates AI hallucinations, we may be missing a bigger threat. The infrastructure powering AI may not be able to sustain everything vendors are promising.

Think about it: 26 major US utilities already have requests to supply an additional 711 gigawatts of new data center power. That’s nearly equal to the entire continental US…

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…