Monthly archives: September, 2025

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health Part 3

This is a follow up to two previous articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici on the Trump administration’s relentless attacks against science, medicine and public health, government sponsored data collection and reporting, climate science, free speech, and the censorship of federally funded academic research and scholarship. The rapid fire assault against the heart of our democracy stunningly continues to escalate, per the Project 2025 roadmap operationalized under the direction of Russell Vought and Stephen Miller, fracturing our public policy, governance, the economy, muzzling the education system, and eradicating our foreign policy and diplomacy. Pacifici’s article focuses on the administration’s new actions in September 2025, documenting censorship in all sectors, across agencies, universities, corporate activities and the economy.

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Subjects: Civil Liberties, Climate Change, Constitutional Law, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Contracts, Health, Healthcare, Legal Research, United States Law

AI in Finance and Banking, September 30, 2025

This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to the primary sources, and as available, indicate links to alternate free versions. Five highlights from this post: A Research Agenda for the Economics of Transformative AI; Import AI 429: Eval the world economy; Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI?; AI and Task Efficiency; and Harnessing artificial intelligence for monitoring financial markets.

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Subjects: AI in Banking and Finance, Economy, Financial System

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 27, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: 48% of Cybersecurity Bosses Failed to Report a Breach This Year; LinkedIn will use your data to train their AI starting Nov 3; Reuters Asked AI Bots to Scam the Elderly. They Obliged; and This is the fastest way to tell if a photo is AI-generated.

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Subjects: AI, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

Dear ChatGPT: Words Matter

Stephen Embry writes about how much we might be losing when we let AI sanitize our word choices: the difference between good and memorable often comes down to a single word. For lawyers especially, professionals whose job is communication and persuasion, completely ceding editorial judgment to algorithms that prioritize blandness over impact is a mistake. Embry states – Words matter. Don’t let robots choose yours.

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Subjects: AI, KM, Law Firm Marketing, Legal Profession, Legal Technology

With ChatGPT, law-school instructor Sean Harrington is rebuilding student assessment for the AI era

With ChatGPT, law-school instructor Sean Harrington is rebuilding student assessment for the AI era. Sean—who teaches students AI and law at the University of Oklahoma and holds both a JD and an MS in Data Analytics—saw a core problem the moment generative AI went mainstream: traditional take-home exams no longer reveal what students really know.

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Subjects: AI, Education, Legal Education, Legal Profession, Legal Research, Legal Technology

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 20, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: NIST says that there are three main ways to sanitize data; Google misled users about their privacy and now owes them $425m, says court; USAi tool lets agencies test for AI biases, GSA official says; FBI warns of cybercriminals using fake FBI crime reporting portals; and Morgan Stanley fined $35m after hard drives sold with customer info still on them.

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Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Government Resources, Privacy

The divergence of law firms from lawyers

Jordan Furlong contends right now it’s possible for an ordinary person to obtain from an LLM like ChatGPT-5 the performance of a legal task — the provision of legal analysis, the production of a legal instrument, the delivery of legal advice — that previously could only be acquired from a human lawyer. He further states he’s not saying a person should do that. The LLM’s output might be effective and reliable, or it might prove disastrously off-base. But many people are already using LLMs in this way, and in the absence of other accessible options for legal assistance, they will continue to do so. Furlong offers insights into the challenges such a paradigm shift pose as well as the consequences of not meeting the moment as the velocity of AI’s adoption permeates the legal profession.

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Subjects: AI, Legal Education, Legal Marketing, Legal Profession, Legal Technology, Training

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism

Shannon Brincat, Frank Mols and Gail Crimmins report that a modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in “digital town squares” across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk has become a focal point for a coordinated campaign of silencing critics that chillingly echoes one of the darkest chapters in American history. They state “this is far-right “cancel culture”, the likes of which the US hasn’t seen since the McCarthy era in the 1950s.”

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Subjects: Congress, Free Speech, Legal Research, Social Media, United States Law

The Operational Protocol Method: Systematic LLM Specialization Through Collaborative Persona Engineering and Agent Coordination

This paper by Dennis Kennedy introduces a systematic methodology for transforming generic Large Language Models into specialized, persistent AI advisors and helpers through structured protocol frameworks and collaborative development processes, enabling reliable human-AI collaboration for complex decision-making across professional and personal domains. Large Language Models consistently underperform as specialized advisors due to context drift, personality inconsistency, and inability to prioritize curated knowledge sources. This paper introduces the Operational Protocol Method, a systematic approach for LLM specialization and assistance through structured persona engineering and collaborative development processes. The method transforms generic LLMs into reliable subject matter expert advisors while enabling coordinated multi-agent systems that maintain expertise boundaries across complex advisory tasks. Case studies in personal finance and note-taking demonstrate the method’s practical effectiveness and versatility across domains.

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Subjects: AI, Financial System, KM, Legal Research, Training
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