June 17, 2025

This is a story about lawyers and moronicans, laziness and greed, and why blame for bad AI results should frequently rest with people, not technology. You should be skeptical about reports of flaws and problems with AI – but also skeptical about the results you get from your own use of AI, and skeptical about…

April 22, 2025

Weight loss drugs effectively regulate impulse control – and the effects go far beyond snack food. Our economy is built on impulse purchases. The secondary effects of GLP-1 drugs will cause what has been called a “$100 trillion dollar disruption.” I’m not talking about societal changes deep in the future. Much of this is on…

March 25, 2025

Breaking news: Artificial intelligence is going to reshape the legal industry again, for the first time. Way back in 2011, the New York Times looked at the advent of e-discovery software and declared in its headline, “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software.” The article refers to “artificial intelligence” but I don’t think those…

March 4, 2025

In the last article I talked about AI and searching for stuff in big companies. Employees will be able to use AI to get answers drawn from all the different places that information is stored – files, databases, email and calendars, Teams chats, all the rest. The AI will only get information that you have…