Over the past several days Rebecca Fordon has been digging into the Claude for Word add-in, and the headline finding surprised her. On document-intensive legal work — cite-checking, consistency review, Table of Authorities assembly — it seems to need less supervision than either Claude on the web or Claude Code. Four tests bear that out, with limits worth knowing.
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: We Don’t Really Know How A.I. Works. That’s a Problem; Online Betting Is Fueling a Wave of Bankruptcies Among Young Americans; Anthropic’s Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users; Google unleashes even more AI security agents to fight crime; and Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed With Zoom and Tinder.
Michael Berman addresses benchmarks used for AI legal research platforms in the context of the risk of hallucinations in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) AI outputs. As Berman states, verification, of course, is not only good advice, but also an ethical mandate.
With the recently launched Claude Legal plugin, Nicole L. Black recommends to lawyers and legal professionals Claude’s AI for tasks like document review and contract drafting. The Claude Legal plugin runs within Claude Cowork, a desktop app that you can download, and no specialized legal software subscription is required.
Commercial manufacturing, precision guidance and advances in artificial intelligence and autonomy have democratized the ability of militaries and militant groups to accurately strike their adversaries. This includes first-person-view, or FPV, drones – a type of one-way attack drone with interfaces like video games – that groups aligned with Iran are already using to target American forces in the Middle East. Prof. Michael C. Horowitz and Senior Research Analyst Lauren Kahn discuss how drones have rapidly changed military strategy, tactics, and pinpoint destructive force.
This article by Hannah Rosborough, winner of the 2026 Schulich School of Law Teaching Excellence Award, provides an overview of some visual aids for teaching legal research that she has developed over the past few years. Rosborough shares these based on positive student feedback and with the hope that others might find them useful in their own teaching or training.
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: As the Federal Government Rushes Toward AI, Here Are Three Cautionary Tales; Combating cybercrime and fraud: A unified approach; Signal messages on an iPhone have been harvested despite app security; Anthropic Says Its Latest AI Model Is Too Powerful to Be Released; and Cybersecurity Alert: Criminals Are Now Using Emojis to Avoid Detection.
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; Beware Dr. Chatbot: Privacy laws don’t protect health care data from AI; This new scam could trick you into downloading malware; Wireless Router Ratings & Reviews; and Report: Voice-Based Phishing Surges to New Heights.
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.