Category «AI»

When managing your money, take a chatbot’s ‘confidence’ with a grain of salt

AI chatbots have entered everyday life with remarkable speed: A 2025 Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of U.S. adults and 58% of those under 30 have used ChatGPT, roughly double the share two years earlier. A growing number are asking AI about money, and as Dr. Pawan Jain highlights, some are getting burned. According to a 2025 survey of 2,000 U.S. adults by Pearl.com, a professional services platform, 19% said they lost more than $100 by following financial advice from an AI chatbot. Among Gen Z investors, that figure rose to 27%.

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Financial System

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 11, 2026

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. Six highlights from this week: Every Way Meta Tracks You, and How to Fight Back; AI Agents Can Be Tricked Into Stealing Your Files, Researchers; All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face. It’s Still Not Clear Where That Data Goes; Unpatched Flaws Disclosed in Filesystem Bundled Into Millions of Embedded Devices; and Wikipedia Is Battling for the Soul of the Internet.

Subjects: AI, Courts & Technology, Cryptocurrency, Cyberlaw, Cybersecurity, Privacy

Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 4, 2026

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: Cybersecurity firms targeted by fraudulent OpenAI organization invites; Polestar says Commerce Department is banning US sales of its cars; Google Loses Final Appeal Over €4.1B EU Android Fine; US tech dependence: A risk report for European businesses; PrivacyHawk Enterprise helps organizations find shadow IT and minimize third-party cyber risk; and FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, PopaBotnet.

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 27, 2026

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: Is the government listening to you through your phone? Here’s what a former CIA officer says; Latest Type of Mail Fraud Is Actually an Old-School Scam; Secret Service put protectees, employees at risk with mobile device security blunders; and White House App Uses Code From Tech Vendor Still Operating in Russia.

Subjects: AI, Cybersecurity, Privacy

Prompt Injection: What Lawyers Considering Agentic AI Must Know

AI agents can fail in too many ways to count. This article by Jerry Lawson focuses on one of the biggest vulnerabilities, prompt injection. However, because there are so many other ways agentic AI can fail, the final sections will also discuss ways to limit the damage a compromised agent or other AI security vulnerability can cause.

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, KM, Legal Profession, Legal Technology

Your medical provider might be recording your mental health care visits

Mental health providers are increasingly using AI technology to record conversations, raising privacy concerns among patients and practitioners. Roxsy Lin informs us that during these sessions, mental health professionals are required to obtain patients’ consent before using the tool. However, as shared by multiple providers, that consent process does not include explanations about how the information is handled. Nor does it say how long and where recordings are stored, or who has access to the data.

Subjects: AI, Healthcare, Privacy

Before Judgment: AI and the Developmental Gap in Legal Formation

Miranda De La Torre, AI and Legal Technology Fellow at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, discusses the complex challenges of new lawyers now learning powerful systems on the job, often without clear institutional guidance, shared professional norms, or confidence in their own ability to supervise the output.

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

Create An AI Policy Before Your Firm Falls Further Behind

The majority of law firm employees are using AI with virtually no guidance or guardrails. How does your law firm compare? Do you have an AI policy in place, and have you educated your staff about appropriate AI usage? Nicole Black explains drafting AI governance isn’t as difficult as it might seem, and there’s no better time than now to get started.

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

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 13, 2026

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: FCC Proposal Could Ban Anonymous Burner Phones in US; Fighting Spyware: An Update From WhatsApp; Emergency Weather Alerts on Netflix? There is a Growing Push to Get the FCC To Mandate Alerts on Streaming; The Pope’s AI Warning Could Help Workers Seek Religious Exemptions From Using AI; and If you don’t fall for these extortionists’ calls, they’ll show up with USB sticks.

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Privacy