The first time I heard Richard Susskind speak was at a Canadian Bar Association conference in Montreal in 2007. That was also the first time I heard one of the best parables about professional services ever told. I’ll try to paraphrase Richard’s delivery from memory: “Black & Decker, the power tool company, had just hired […]| Law21
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Gen AI is climbing the "legal skills ladder" with alarming speed. What if lawyers responded with comprehensive “legal-plus” oversight of their clients’ affairs? Welcome to Peace Of Mind As A Service.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
Last year, HBR published a piece on how people are using gen AI. Much has happened over the past 12 months. We now have Custom GPTs—AI tailored for narrower sets of requirements. New kids are on the block, such as DeepSeek and Grok, providing more competition and choice. Millions of ears pricked up as Google debuted their podcast generator, NotebookLM. OpenAI launched many new models (now along with the promise to consolidate them all into one unified interface). Chain-of-thought reasonin...| Harvard Business Review
The researchers' bots generated identities as a sexual assault survivor, a trauma counselor, and a Black man opposed to Black Lives Matter.| 404 Media
New models and new thresholds| www.oneusefulthing.org
As technical legal work falls into the vortex of generative AI, we need to redesign lawyer formation to engage and develop the humanity of legal professionals.| jordanfurlong.substack.com
