Category «Knowledge Management»

Do LLMs Truly “Understand” When a Precedent Is Overruled?

Do LLMs Truly “Understand” When a Precedent Is Overruled?. Li Zhang, [email protected]. The full dataset can be accessed at https://github.com/lizhang-AIandLaw/Do-LLMs-Truly-Understand-When-a-Precedent-Is-Overruled. Jaromir Savelka and Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University. “Large language models (LLMs) with extended context windows show promise for complex legal reasoning tasks, yet their ability to understand long legal documents remains …

Subjects: Courts, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Testing the top AI browsers – which ones actually impressed me

ZDNET: “AI browsers promise to change how we search, shop, and work online. So, I’ve been trying them – and found 5 so far that really deliver…. BrowserOS is an open-source agentic browser capable of turning your words into actions. Describe a task in plain language, and BrowserOS will handle the rest for you. BrowserOS …

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

Labor Unions, EFF Sue Trump Administration to Stop Ideological Surveillance of Free Speech Online

EFF: Viewpoint-based Online Surveillance of Permanent Residents and Visa Holders Violates First Amendment, Lawsuit Argues. The United Automobile Workers (UAW), Communications Workers of America (CWA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online. The complaint …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Courts, E-Mail, E-Records, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Everyone Is Laying People Off This Week. Researchers Say They’re Going to Regret It

Gizmodo: “The nation’s largest employers are doing a lot less employing lately. In recent weeks, Amazon announced it would cut 14,000 jobs, Paramount axed 1,000 people, Target let go of 1,800 employees, UPS said it will start a purge of 14,000 people with the aim of getting rid of 48,000 workers in total, and Meta …

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

Large US law firm apologizes for AI errors in bankruptcy court filing

Reuters: “Marking the latest collision of artificial intelligence with attorney ethics, a large U.S. law firm told a judge it was “profoundly embarrassed” after one of its lawyers submitted a court filing with inaccurate and non-existent citations that were generated by AI. Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, an 1,800-lawyer firm that had been representing a creditor …

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

Harvey, OpenAI, and the race to use AI to revolutionize Big Law

Fast Company – no paywall: “…Harvey, which is used by some 250 law firms—including 42% of The American Lawyer’s list of biggest 100 firms in the U.S.—announced in June that it raised a $300 million series D led by Sequoia, bringing its total haul to more than $800 million and driving its valuation to $5 …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

How To See Any YouTube Channel’s Livestreams Immediately

Matthew Cassinelli – YouTube has the same permalink for every profile that redirects to the channel’s streams – here’s how I take advantage of it (and my shortcut to do it for you).: “If you’re someone who enjoys watching livestreams on YouTube, you may not know about the permanent redirect for every YouTube channel that …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

AI Incident Database

AI Incident Database – Search over 3000 reports of AI Harms. Why “AI Incidents”? Intelligent systems are currently prone to unforeseen and often dangerous failures when they are deployed to the real world. Much like the transportation sector before it (e.g., FAA and FARS) and more recently computer systems, intelligent systems require a repository of …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

President for Life

The Atlantic / Gift Article [14 days] – “Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king. In the normal course of history, the president of the United States is a figure who inspires optimism in the American people. The 47th president prefers to stir feelings of fear, vulnerability, hopelessness, and political inevitability—the …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

3 AI content detectors that identify AI text 100% of the time and an even better option

ZDNet – “I’ve been testing AI content detectors for more than two years. And now there’s an equally effective option that doesn’t require a new subscription….Before I go on, though, let’s discuss plagiarism and how it relates to our problem. Merriam-Webster defines “plagiarize” as “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) …

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

ChatGPT Atlas: The Trojan Horse on Your Desktop

The Augmented Educator: Security, Privacy, and Academic Integrity in the Age of Agentic Web Browsers – “A few days ago, OpenAI released Atlas, an agentic web browser that embeds ChatGPT directly into the browsing experience. Atlas is not the first browser of its kind. Perplexity’s Comet and several other experimental systems preceded it. What distinguishes Atlas …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

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