Will agentic AI free us from professional drudgery and transform us into paragons of productivity? Sam Altman, Sundar Pichai, and Dario Amodei certainly think so, and they would like you to stop asking inconvenient questions and start buying. The major AI vendors collectively insist it is time to move past the simple chatbot and embrace
If you ever need an ego boost, describe a half-formed idea to an AI chatbot. Within seconds, you will learn your idea is insightful and your question is great. Apparently, every question is great.
A chatbot may call your argument sound because it assumes you want agreement and glosses over weaknesses it should flag.
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Isaac Asimov was way ahead of his time. I, Robot, his 75-year-old collection of science fiction stories, remains strikingly relevant to today’s hottest news topic: AI agents that behave unpredictably and sometimes dangerously.
Asimov repeatedly shows how even a system equipped with seemingly sensible safety rules can behave dangerously when the rules are ambiguous
Many will agree with AI skeptics that lawyers should not use AI in criminal cases. My take is different.
Those lawyers are right about one thing: criminal law deserves the strictest checking discipline in the profession. That is not a prescription for AI abstinence.
The real problem is lawyers filing something without reading it.
Lawyers will never eliminate AI hallucinations with today’s technology. But they can reduce them—sometimes substantially.
Hallucinations arise from fundamental characteristics of current large language models, which generate answers by predicting plausible language rather than independently determining whether every statement is true. Recent OpenAI research adds another wrinkle: AI systems can be rewarded for guessing rather
“Human in the loop” has quickly become one of the most reassuring phrases in the modern AI vocabulary. It suggests prudence, restraint, and—above all—control. If a human must approve the system’s actions, what could go wrong?
Human in the loop, often shortened to HITL, describes any arrangement in which a person reviews or authorizes an
What are AI agents and how do they differ from AI apps most of us have been using for the past few years?
AI Chatbots like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini are built on large language models. They respond to prompts and provide answers. They give us information, but don’t take any actions.
AI Agents are
Most lawyers encounter artificial intelligence through cloud services like Claude, Gemini or ChatGPT. They type a question, upload a document, and receive an answer produced on computers operated by someone else.
This arrangement is convenient. It also means that the lawyer is relying on an outside company to process the information, maintain appropriate security, follow
An AI agent can be attacked by an email you never open. No click. No download. No opened attachment. Just a “confused deputy,” an agent that has failed to distinguish a prompt from data, a problem known as prompt injection.
Security researchers recently demonstrated prompte injection mechanisms with