In If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky argues: If any company or group, anywhere on the planet, builds an artificial superintelligence using anything remotely like current techniques, based on anything remotely like the present understanding of AI, then …
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These are a few notes from CALIcon 2026, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan in early June. This was my first CALIcon, and I’ll definitely be back; lots of practical takeaways, new ideas, and plenty of fun too. The session recordings …
Articles from WebAIM Headings Review by Iantha Haight WebAIM’s “Headings” article covers the basic HTML structure of web page heading design using a simple recipe example. The article enumerates common mistakes made with headings (again with simple examples) and how …
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I recently returned from the 2026 AALL Leadership Academy in Chicago, and I want to share a few reflections and encourage anyone thinking about applying to do so. Over my relatively short career as a law librarian, I have attended …
Every spring, the NFL Draft takes over the sports world with wall-to-wall coverage, nonstop debates, and franchises making high-stakes decisions that could shape the next decade. As a sports fan in Pittsburgh, it felt like the only topic anyone talked …
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Puppies. They were the first to greet me when I arrived at the ABA Techshow exhibit hall. Puppies, and over 120 vendors and exhibitors showcasing legal technologies from research to bill collection to case management – almost all powered by …
ABA Techshow 2026: AI, puppies, and superheroes (oh my!) Read more »
We are pleased to pass along the following annoucement from the Grants & Awards Committee. Rebecca Fordon for the Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award Rebecca Fordon, Assistant Director for Innovation, Research, and Instruction in the Moritz Law Library …
I’d consider myself a young professor, my actual age notwithstanding. But I’m young enough that YouTube and its content creators have been an integral part of my life for longer than they haven’t. And YouTube is just becoming a larger …
Welcome Back, Gamers: Notes on YouTube, Instruction, and Entertainment Read more »
The Problem In a recent case involving AI-hallucinated citations, the attorney responsible for the hallucinations accidentally made an excellent point: when a generative AI tool makes up citations in a proprietary format, it’s difficult or impossible to verify them without …
Two Solutions for Hallucinated Citations to Unpublished Cases Read more »
Legal technology rarely expands by design. More often, it grows incrementally—one new subscription at a time. A litigation team requests a docket analytics tool. Corporate adopts a contract review platform. A pilot for generative AI quietly becomes a recurring line …
Tech Stack Creep: How Law Firms Can Eliminate Redundant Legal Platforms Read more »
