The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 8 – This article by Sabrina I. Pacifici is the eighth in a series with a focus on the continuing onslaught on science, healthcare and public health, and the rule of law. Since the 1990s, the public and …
This article by Sabrina I. Pacifici is the eighth in a series with a focus on the continuing onslaught on science, healthcare and public health, and the rule of law. Since the 1990s, the public and private sectors have mobilized to coordinate, fund, build, expand and sustain one of most vibrant and impactful scientific communities in the world. But in little more than one year, this administration has engaged in a relentless campaign of targeted and sustained attacks against America’s highly interconnected network structure of scientific research and development. The specifics of the dozens of destructive actions taken by this administration have been documented in this series. The overall goal of these articles is to track and identify the magnitude of the loses we have sustained and the damage done to our democracy, economy, the lives of countless Americans who will suffer from the termination of vital research and routine vaccinations, and to our free and fair elections.
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. Five highlights from this post: Artificial Intelligence, Productivity, and the Workforce: Evidence from Corporate Executives; Should you trust AI to manage your money? The finance industry is betting you will; UK Gov – Research and analysis Agentic AI and consumers; AI Agent Goes Rogue, Starts Mining Crypto to Amass Funds; and Watchdog Issues Grim Warning About Letting AI Run Your Life.
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: This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts; Tech issues continue to haunt 911 systems; Wireless Router Ratings & Reviews; OMB’s AI guidance falls short on privacy, watchdog says; and the FBI Director Got Hacked By Iran. Now He’s Offering $10 Million to Catch Them – In Iran.
Generative AI is coming for legal work, whether lawyers like it or not, and much of what it brings will be genuinely useful. Discovery, though, is a different conversation. Jerry Lawson discuses why technology-assisted review (TAR), the old, reliable workhorse, should remain a critical component of your organizations’ privileged document access management.
Marcus P. Zillman’s extensive bibliography covers numerous subject matter specific AI prompt resources, guides, templates, methodologies and best practices that you across applications, and leans into expert sources from LinkedIn.
A lawyer’s ability to stand behind their legal work is a real advantage over legal AI. But for many clients, paying more to transfer risk to a lawyer is a luxury — and maybe soon, an unnecessary one. Jordan Furlong’s opening keynote at ABA TECHSHOW March 26, 2026 in Chicago addressed two critical questions facing the legal profession right now: “As AI displaces lawyers from a growing share of legal task performance, what will be left for lawyers to do?” and “How are we going to develop lawyers when we don’t know what we’re training them for, and when we can’t count on law firms to do the training anymore?”
Hana Lee Goldin is a expert “human” pathfinder who shares her extensive knowledge with an expanding cadre of people seeking to adopt AI in all facets of work and life. In her article, Goldin deftly illuminates one of the major risks of ChatGPT. Goldin say it doesn’t lie, exactly. It patterns matches. When you ask for a “cited article about remote work productivity,” it knows what citations look like. Author name, year, compelling title, respectable journal. It assembles these patterns into something that feels right. Like a dream where everything makes sense until you wake up.
Josh Kubicki identifies a significant risk that will impact large law firm services to global enterprise wide clients. As Kubicki details, the single largest buyer of elite legal services in the world is now funding the construction of an AI law firm designed to do that same work. This not hype. This is not a pilot program. Blackstone and Norm AI are, per their own public announcement, “collaborating to shape and develop Norm Law legal services for Blackstone’s use.” The client is co-designing the firm that will compete with its own outside counsel. And it’s not being subtle about it.
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: AI is moving fast — and breaking things; Google’s Smart Glasses Can Create Fake Photos on the Fly; Microsoft Authenticator Flaw on Android, iOS Could Leak Login Codes for Millions; UPMC notifies patients of possible medical record access; and Robot Dogs Are Protecting Data Centers. Operators Are Seeing Payoffs.