Category «AI»

The greatest risk of AI in higher education isn’t cheating – it’s the erosion of learning itself

Over the past eight years Nir Eisikovits and Jacob Burley have been studying the moral implications of pervasive engagement with AI as part of a joint research project between the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. In a recent white paper, we argue that as AI systems become more autonomous, the ethical stakes of AI use in higher ed rise, as do its potential consequences.

Subjects: AI, Education, Ethics, KM

AI Prompting for Legal Professionals

Technology has advanced tremendously in the 21st century, but “garbage in, garbage out” still applies. Bonnie Shucha discusses how prompting is simply the art of asking generative AI the right question in the right way. Shucha advocates using a systematic approach, such as the “7 Ps Framework,” to help you guide AI more effectively by providing seven key elements to consider when crafting prompts: persona, product, prompt, purpose, prime, privacy, and polish. You won’t always need all seven elements, but understanding each component helps you make deliberate choices about what to include in your prompt.

Subjects: AI, Legal Research

Agentic AI in the Wild: Lessons from Moltbook and OpenClaw

Tools like OpenClaw – the open-source AI agent that underpins Moltbook – are only possible because of the rapidly developing, and publicly available, capabilities of frontier large language models such as Anthropic’s Claude. Ardi Janjeva, Carolyn Ashurst and Rick Hennessy of the Alan Turing Institute discuss how the recent Moltbook frenzy illustrates the interaction between these capabilities and human behaviour is far from straightforward: users both deliberately and inadvertently behave in ways that significantly amplify the risks that applications like OpenClaw introduce.

Subjects: AI, KM, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 14, 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: Open the wrong “PDF” and attackers gain remote access to your PC; These video doorbells don’t rely on the cloud or subscriptions; Google Warns of Quantum Era Security Risks: Is Your Data Safe?; and Google Handed Over Journalist’s Data to ICE Without Court Order; and CBP to strengthen ‘tactical targeting,’ ‘counter-network analysis’ with Clearview AI.

Subjects: AI, Criminal Law, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Financial System, Government Resources, Legal Research, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 31, 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: Google Is Accused of Burying $700M Settlement Emails — They’re Landing in Spam Folders; How ICE is using facial recognition in Minnesota; US Version of TikTok off to Bumpy Start; Competitors Surge; Google ties AI Search to Gmail and Photos, raising new privacy questions; and Activists Say Ring Cameras Are Being Used by ICE.

Subjects: AI, Computer Security, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Financial System, Legal Research, Privacy

All In: Embedding AI in the Law School Classroom

What is the irreducibly human element in legal education when AI can pass the bar exam, generate effective lectures, and provide personalized learning and academic support? This article by law professor Gregory M. Duhl confronts that question head-on by documenting the planning and design of a comprehensive transformation of a required doctrinal law school course—first-year Contracts— with AI fully embedded throughout the course design. Instead of adding AI exercises to conventional pedagogy or creating a stand-alone AI course, this approach reimagines legal education for the AI era by integrating AI as a learning enhancer rather than a threat to be managed. The transformation serves Mitchell Hamline School of Law’s access-driven mission: AI helps create equity for diverse learners, prepares practice-ready professionals for legal practice transformed by AI, and shifts the institutional narrative from policing technology use to leveraging it pedagogically.

Subjects: AI, Education, KM, Legal Education, Legal Profession, Legal Research, Legal Technology, LEXIS, Westlaw

Like Lawyers In Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring The Coming AI Infrastructure Crisis? (Part III)

Before the volcano erupts, smart lawyers may want to think twice about investing too heavily in AI or thinking it’s a panacea for all problems – by Stephen Embry and Melissa Rogozinsk. All four parts of this series are available via links on each part of this series.

Subjects: AI, Information Management, KM, Legal Marketing, Legal Profession, Legal Research, Technology Trends