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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.

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.

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

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.

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

Google wasn’t against this privacy bill, officially. Behind the scenes, it orchestrated opposition.

Reporters Khari Johnson and Yue Stella Yu investigate how Google organized business owners against California legislation to force its Chrome web browser to safeguard personal data.

Subjects: Legal Research, Legislative, Privacy, Search Engines, Search Strategies

AI in Finance and Banking, September 15, 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: Goldman Sachs bankers explore limits of AI: ‘The risk is over-reliance’.; AI Agents for Economic Research; The State of AI in Financial Services in 2025 — views from our front row seats; Managing explanations: how regulators can address AI explainability; and Artificial Writing and Automated Detection.

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

LLRX August 2025 Issue – Articles and Columns

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health, Part 2 – This is a follow up to Sabrina I. Pacifici’s July 31, 2025 article, The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health. In just one more month the administration has ramped up its use of unsupportable actions to expand …

Subjects: KM

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health – Part 2

This is a follow up to Sabrina I. Pacifici’s July 31, 2025 article, The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health. In just one more month the administration has ramped up its use of unsupportable actions to expand the cancellation of billions of dollars of congressionally approved funding for a broad swath of government-funded agencies, institutions, programs and leading edge initiatives. They also relentlessly target and censor academic research in the sciences, public health, medicine, and on the climate crisis. The deliberate collateral damage has purged the leadership in organizations whose subject matter expertise drives vast knowledge acquired through decades of public service. The continued decimation of the country’s long standing support for the sciences impacts every person in America. It has fractured our collective human and technological systems and resources. The scope and specificity of the bare knuckle attacks and the implications are exposed.

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Education, Health, Healthcare, Legal Research, Medical Research, Viruses & Hoaxes