Category «Education»

Thinking Like A Lawyer In The Age Of Generative AI: Cognitive Limits On AI Adoption Among Lawyers

Schwarcz, Daniel and Das, Debarati and Kang, Dongyeop and McDonnell, Brett H., Thinking Like A Lawyer In The Age Of Generative AI: Cognitive Limits On AI Adoption Among Lawyers(May 19, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5260645 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5260645 “As of mid-2025, there is robust evidence that generative AI possesses the technological capability to significantly reshape legal …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Solo attorney compared current LEXIS subscription to ChatGPT Deep Research

Via LinkedIn – Carolyn Elefant – “I just compared my current LEXIS subscription to ChatGPT Deep Research and was blown away. My takeaways: ✅ ChatGPTDeepResearch – Comprehensive, well-organized memo. ❌ LEXIS – A big, over-inclusive data dump ❎ ChatGPTDeepResearch – Identified key SCOTUS precedent in first sentence. ❌ LEXIS – Missed precedent entirely. ✅ ChatGPTDeepResearch …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Getting the Most from AI Tools: A Practical Guide to Writing Effective Prompts

Lande, John, Getting the Most from AI Tools: A Practical Guide to Writing Effective Prompts (May 14, 2025). University of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-24, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5254164 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5254164 “This article is a companion to How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bot: What I Learned …

Subjects: AI, Education, Legal Research

Deep Research with AI: 9 Ways to Get Started

Wonder Tools – “The AI search landscape is transforming at breakneck speed. New “Deep Research” tools from ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity autonomously search and gather information from dozens — even hundreds — of sites, then analyze and synthesize it to produce comprehensive reports. While a human might take days or weeks to produce these 30-page …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Legal Research

CensorTrace

CensorTrace – “Following the 2025 U.S. presidential inauguration, changes were made to the content available on certain public government websites and platforms. This website is an automated tool designed to monitor the removal of webpages from major U.S. government websites. It uses publicly available data from the Internet Archive to compare sitemaps from before and …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, E-Records, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show

404 Media: “Soon after ChatGPT was released, I [Jason Keobler] filed 60 public records requests with states and school districts around the country to get a sense of how they were thinking about the technology. Because of the way public records work, it often took years to get anything back. I got busy, and there …

Subjects: AI, Education, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Read History’s Best, Anytime, Anywhere

The Purpose of the Library of Short Stories – This website is an endeavour to make the best of history’s short stories easily accessible to read online at all times, for everyone, for free. Thousands of works have been formatted, from the mysteries of Edgar Allan Poe, to the horrors of H.P.Lovecraft, the adventures of …

Subjects: Education, Libraries

What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved?

FT.com no paywall: “It was never meant to be $2tn. Elon Musk’s vow last year to cut almost a third of the annual federal budget, made in front of a frenzied Maga crowd during a Trump rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden, came as a surprise even to the event’s organisers. “The deal was …

Subjects: Censorship, Climate Change, Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Defense, E-Records, Economy, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

The US Library of Congress is under attack

FT.com no paywall – An institution that survived British torching in 1814 is now facing a new onslaught – “An institution that survived British torching in 1814 is now facing a new onslaught. The Library of Congress is a reference-only research library, its collections being built through legal deposit legislation, passed by Congress. A History …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Copyright, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Professors Are Using ChatGPT, Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

The New York Times no paywall: “When ChatGPT was released at the end of 2022, it caused a panic at all levels of education because it made cheating incredibly easy. Students who were asked to write a history paper or literary analysis could have the tool do it in mere seconds. Some schools banned it …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Congress’s Librarian, Fired by the President

First Branch Forecast: “Congress’s Librarian, Fired by the President The presidential firing of Dr. Hayden raises serious questions about legislative independence. On Thursday, President Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Dr. Hayden became the 14th Librarian of Congress in 2016. In that role, she oversaw the Library of Congress, a major legislative support agency. …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

From image generation to writing, ranking the best and worst of AI

Vox – no paywall: “Staying on top of AI developments is a full-time job. I would know, because it’s my full-time job. I subscribe to Anthropic’s Pro mode for access to their latest model, Claude 3.7, in “extended thinking” mode; I have a complementary subscription to OpenAI’s Enterprise mode so that I can test out …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Thank you!