27 Articles about AI & Legal Issues

Even as hallucinations show up in legal filings, Big Law goes all in on AI with new Anthropic release – Fortune  

How AI, Digital Doubles, and New Laws Are Rewriting Fashion and Beauty – National Law Review

Can You Trademark Yourself? Inside Matthew McConaughey’s Novel Legal Strategy to Fight AI Theft – Variety

Celebrities are filing trademarks to combat AI clones. Should you? – Washington Post

Questions about AI liability for tax professionals – Reuters

Prosecutor suspended by state supreme court for artificial intelligence use in court docs – ABA Journal

Pennsylvania sues Character AI, says chatbot poses as doctors – Reuters

Five book publishers and a best-selling novelist accused Meta of stealing their work to help train A.I. models. – New York Times

AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you – Reuters

An incoherent patchwork of state laws threatens to handicap America in the artificial intelligence race. – Washington Post

U.S. OpenAI Sued by Seven Families Over Mass Shooting Suspect’s ChatGPT Use – Wall Street Journal

Taylor Swift Files to Trademark Her Voice and Likeness, Apparently to Protect Against AI Misuse – Variety

Alabama Supreme Court drops the gavel on lawyer who apparently used AI to apologize for using AI – Yellow Hammer News

Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman head to court in high-stakes showdown over AI – Associated Press

An elite Wall Street law firm has apologized to a federal judge for submitting a court filing full of A.I. “hallucinations.” – New York Times

Florida's attorney general announces criminal investigation into OpenAI over shooting – NBC News

Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era - New York Times

Health AI and the law: Could your chatbot doc testify against you? – Mashable

A Judge Mistakes the Claude Chatbot for a Person – Wall Street Journal

Judges are increasingly using AI to draft rulings and prepare for hearings – Washington Post

A.I. Incites a New Wave of Grieving Parents Fighting for Online Safety - New York Times

Helping the legal profession get AI‑ready: A new advisory board takes shape – Reuters

Anthropic’s Leaked Code Tests Copyright Challenges in A.I. Era - New York Times

AI-Generated Content and Copyright Law: What We Know – Builtin

This monkey selfie will protect you from AI slop – BBC

AI meets the gavel: Key legal battles and regulatory trends in the United States – JD Supra

Rethinking lawyer development in future AI-enabled law firms - Reuters

Palm readers and chatbots

Palm readers and chatbots share a fundamental trait: Both operate within closed universes of information. The reader has only the cues you bring into the room; the AI has only patterns extracted from its training data. Neither can verify claims against a world they do not independently observe and both draw authority from fluent performance rather than reality. - Herbert Lin writing in The Washington Post

26 Articles about AI & Teaching

College students are noticing their AI‑smoothed writing sounds strong — and not like them – The Conversation

Why the ‘Middle Path’ of AI Literacy May Be the Future of English Class – The 74 Million

Princeton Mandates Exam Proctors After Fears of ‘Widespread’ AI-Fueled Cheating – Wall Street Journal  

Pedagogy Under Pressure: How AI Is Forcing Business Schools To Rethink How They Teach – Poets and Quants

AI was ruining my college philosophy classes. So I assigned a new kind of essay. – Boston Globe

Faculty Concerned About ASU’s New AI Course Builder – Inside Higher Ed  

When AI Cheating Becomes a Legal Risk – Chronicle of Higher Ed 

Don’t let your students use AI as a ghostwriter – Nature

A new library-based initiative at the University of Virginia embeds hands-on AI learning and workforce skills across disciplines. – Inside Higher Ed  

This new tool makes AI's role in student writing visible – Phys.org 

How should universities define AI proficiency? – Times Higher Ed

The machines are fine. I'm worried about us. - Ergophere

What the research shows about generative AI in tutoring - Brookings

Faculty are right that AI output is mediocre. They’re wrong about why – Times Higher Ed  

ChatGPT fed his students easy answers, so he built an app to argue with them – Washington Post  

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons – Associated Press  

These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times 

Perfect homework, blank stares: Why colleges are turning to oral exams to combat AI – Associated Press

An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall – Block Club Chicago

How Are Your Teachers Handling Writing in the Age of A.I.? – New York Times

Writing Faculty Push for the Right to Refuse AI - Inside Higher Ed

Blue books make an "out of step" campus comeback in the AI era – Axios

University of Minnesota professors concerned about AI faculty reviews - The Minnesota Daily

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It) - New York Times

80% of Teachers Are Using AI Tools in the Classroom – Technological Horizons in Education

Teaching AI by Doing, Not Studying - Inside Higher Ed

AI definitions: Apache Spark

Apache Spark - This data processing tool can be used on very large data sets. Its “cluster computing” uses resources from many computer processors linked together for rapid data processing and real-time analytics. Thus, it supports predictive analytics, a data science tool. For instance, it can analyze video or social media data automatically. It's a scalable so that users can easily introduce more processors into the system to make it more powerful.  

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The AI Digital Transformation isn't Just Technical Process

The most dangerous ghost in the machine isn’t a technical bug, it’s the human instinct to resist what we don’t trust. In my experience leading global operations and data governance at Amazon and ADP, I’ve seen perfectly engineered algorithms fail not because of the code, but because of a psychological rejection by the people expected to use them. Digital transformation is not just a technical milestone we can check off. In reality, it is a psychological one. -Andrew Hallinson writing in CIO

20 Recent Articles about AI & Audio/Video

OpenAI unveils three audio models for real-time voice tasks – Reuters

AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it? – The Verge

An Idiot’s Guide to Music AI Companies - PitchFork 

China’s Biggest Streaming Platform Wants Most of Its New Films to Be AI-Generated – Gizmodo  

Inside Suno’s $2.5 Billion Bet That AI-Made Music Is Here To Stay – Forbes

YouTube Opens Up AI Deepfake Detection Tool to All of Hollywood – Hollywood Reporter

The Team Behind a Pro-Iran, Lego-Themed A.I.-generated video Campaign – New Yorker   

A new viral dating show featuring sexy, cheating fruit could be proof that AI content can actually captivate viewers. – Wall Street Journal   

Iran Is Winning the AI Slop Propaganda War – 404 Media

AI-generated ads are trickling into political campaigns, sparking big worries – NBC News

A.I. Replica of Val Kilmer to Appear in Film After His Death – New York Times

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts - 404 Media

Netflix to Pay as Much as $600 Million for Ben Affleck’s AI Firm – Bloomberg  

AI-Generated ‘Actress’ Tilly Norwood Drops Music Video for ‘Take the Lead’: ‘I’m Just a Tool, But I’ve Got Life’ – Billboard

AI-generated fake voices becoming increasingly hard to detect - Yahoo News

Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? - New York Times

Senators F Brady Tkachuk objects to 'fake' AI-generated White House TikTok – Reuters

How AI music tools are changing audio production – Venture Beat

These Tools Say They Can Spot A.I. Fakes. Do They Really Work? – New York Times

German voice actors boycott Netflix over AI training concerns – Reuters

Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio – Tech Crunch

The A.I. Videos on Kids’ YouTube Feeds - New York Times

An expert on human blind spots gives advice on how to think

A lot of the issues or problems we get into, we get into because we’re doing it all by ourselves. We’re relying on ourselves. We’re making decisions as our own island, if you will. And if we consult, chat, schmooze with other people, often we learn things or get different perspectives that can be quite helpful.

An active social life, active social bonds, in many different ways tends to be something that’s healthy for people. Social bonds can also be informationally healthy as well. So that’s more on a top, more abstract level, if you will. That is, don’t try to do it yourself. Doing it yourself is when you get into trouble.

David Dunning quoted in Vox 

22 Recent Articles about Using AI

Five Ways A.I. Search Beats an Old-School Google Search – New York Times  

How AI Helps the Best and Hurts the Rest – MIT

Etsy launches app within ChatGPT to facilitate conversational shopping experience – Retail Brew

OpenAI releases new default ChatGPT model aimed at reducing hallucinations in law, medicine, finance, and other technical fields – Tech Crunch

Even Without Internet Access, Prisoners Are Trying to Benefit From A.I. – New York Times

'Jagged Intelligence': The Illusion Of Reasoning In Modern LLMs – Forbes

Anthropic's AI downgrade stings power users - Axios

Gen Z Is Using A.I., but Doesn’t Feel Great About It – New York Times 

Students Are Using AI to Guide College Decisions. What Is It Telling Them? – Chronicle of Higher Ed

Millions of people are pretending to be AI chatbots — for fun – NPR

Don’t Use A.I. to Do This – New York Times

How to Switch AI Chatbots—and Why You Might Want To – Wall Street Journal  

WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more – Tech Crunch

How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews? – New York Times

Artificial intelligence helps you work harder, instead of just outsourcing your brain. – Washington Post  

A.I. Agents: They’re Fun. They’re Useful. But Don’t Give Them the Credit Card. – New York Times

AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice – Stanford

I gave my parents 7 ChatGPT prompts — now they’re using AI every single day – Tom’s Guide

I’ve taught thousands of people how to use AI – here’s what I’ve learned – The Guardian

Stanford just proved your AI chatbot is flattering you into bad decisions – AI for Automation 

Employers are demanding AI skills. What's the best way to learn them? – CBS News

Sorry, Mom. You’re Chatting With an A.I. Agent, Not Your Son. – New York Times

AI definitions: AI consultants

AI consultants – This job involves helping businesses adopt and implement AI by offering a strategic roadmap, technical expertise, and project leadership. The AI consultant must facilitate communication between a company’s departments to marry technical knowledge with business needs. After the AI is deployed, it is this person’s job to help set up ways to monitor outcomes. Besides possessing a robust AI education, the AI consultant will need to stay on top of trends and changes in the industry.

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I can’t and I don’t

Every time you tell yourself “I can't”, you're creating a feedback loop that is a reminder of your limitations. This terminology indicates that you're forcing yourself to do something you don't want to do.

In comparison, when you tell yourself “I don't”, you're creating a feedback loop that reminds you of your control and power over the situation. It's a phrase that can propel you towards breaking your bad habits and following your good ones.

“I can't” and “I don't” are words that seem similar and we often interchange them for one another, but psychologically they can provide very different feedback and, ultimately, result in very different actions. They aren't just words and phrases. They are affirmations of what you believe, reasons for why you do what you do, and reminders of where you want to go.

The ability to overcome temptation and effectively say no is critical not only to your physical health, but also to maintaining a sense of well–being and control in your mental health.

To put it simply: you can either be the victim of your words or the architect of them. Which one would you prefer?

James Clear 

19 Webinars this week about AI, Journalism & Media

Mon, May 11 - The Stories We Carry: Exploring our Implicit Bias and Creating Equitable Change

What: This interactive session invites nonprofit professionals to explore implicit bias with curiosity rather than blame, building awareness through reflection, dialogue, and real world application. Participants will deepen their understanding of how empathy and emotional intelligence help interrupt automatic assumptions and strengthen leadership. The session concludes with practical tools to align organizational values with everyday practices.

Who: Syah B., Syah B. Consulting.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab

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Mon, May 11 - Common AI use cases in CX

What: We will walk through real-world AI use cases to help you better understand how AI can support your organization’s public services.

Who: Luke Norris  Vice President, Platform Strategy & Digital Transformation, Granicus.

When: 4 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: GovLoop

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Mon, May 11 - Strengthen your Science Reporting

What: This webinar will offer tips for building and sustaining strong relationships with scientist sources, getting past jargon, and drawing out clearer, more colorful quotes. We’ll explore findings from the Journalism Resource survey on the barriers journalists face when working with researchers, and how to overcome them. You’ll learn how to increase your odds of getting a response, make interviews more engaging, and turn complex studies into accessible stories.

When: 8 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free to members

Sponsor: EurekAlert!

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Tue, May 12 - What are journalists around the world doing with AI?

What: This session explores how newsrooms internationally are using AI and automation in practice, from content production workflows to local data projects that serve communities more effectively. You’ll look at real-world examples from Scandinavia, the US and beyond, with a focus on where organisations are drawing editorial red lines and how they are balancing efficiency with trust.

Who: Cecilia Campbell, Senior Strategy Advisor at United Robots. 

When: 7:30 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Women in Journalism

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Tue, May 12 - Designing Learning Ecosystems with AI: Moving Beyond Prompting

What: This webinar supports educators in shifting from using AI as a prompting tool to designing intentional, student-centered learning ecosystems that integrate AI in meaningful ways.

Who: Kimberly Niebauer, a teacher with 26 years of service in Duval County Public Schools; Aynul Dean, who teaches sixth-grade English and mathematics and occasionally supports high school students in physics and chemistry; Kelly McNeil, a Senior Learning Experience Designer at Digital Promise.

When: 10 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: HP AI Teacher Academy 2.0

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Tue, May 12 - Perplexity: From answer engine to AI interface layer - what it means for publishers

What: How Perplexity’s product and partnership model is evolving in practice, what has been learned from the first wave of publisher collaborations, and how the company is thinking about value, attribution, and scale in an AI-mediated web.

Who: Jessica Chan, Head of Publisher Partnerships, Perplexity; Ezra Eema, Lead, AI in Media, WAN-IFRA; Kevin Anderson, Director of the Digital Revenue Network, WAN-IFRA.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: World Association of News Publishers

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Tue, May 12 - Criticality in the Age of AI: Navigating "Shiny Object Syndrome" for Learning Leaders

What: In this mindset-focused session, we are hitting pause on the hype cycle to focus on criticality. We will explore how to stop chasing every new "squirrel" and start building a deliberate, effective tech stack. 

Who: Garima Gupta, Founder & CEO, Artha Learning Inc.

When: 12 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Training Magazine Network

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Tue, May 12 - Data-Driven Decision-Making: From Dashboards to AI Automation 

What: We will explore how nonprofits can utilize real-time analytics, predictive modeling, and AI-powered automation to enhance forecasting and informed operational decision-making. Attendees will learn how to identify the metrics that matter most, connect data across systems, and build a culture where data is trusted, accessible, and actively used to guide smarter decisions across their organization.

Who: Zach Patton Tapp Network  HubSpot Solutions Manager; Julian Gerace Tapp Network  Digital Solutions Manager.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: TechSoup

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Tue, May 12 - Accessible by Design: Disability and the Inclusive Campus

What: This online panel, moderated by a Chronicle journalist, will explore how institutions are applying universal-design principles and using AI-driven inclusive tools to make both in person and online experiences more accessible.

Who: Alexander Kafka, Senior Editor, The Chronicle of Higher Education; Michelle Deal, Director of Learning Technologies Research and Development, Landmark College; Casaundra Maimone, Associate General Counsel for Student Affairs, Howard University; Rivka Molinsky, Associate Dean of Students and Innovation, School of Health Sciences, Touro University; Donna Patterson, Director of Africana Studies and Professor, Department of History, Political Science, Philosophy, and Law Studies, Delaware State University.

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Chronicle of Higher Ed

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Tue, May 12 - The Press Under Threat: Protecting Journalism and the Public’s Right to Know

What: At a time when journalists and media workers face increasing threats—from criminalization and harassment to digital surveillance and political intimidation—this webinar will discuss the current threats facing journalists and media workers globally, from legal harassment to digital surveillance and political intimidation. Panelists will discuss how robust advocacy, legal protections, and active community engagement can defend and expand press freedom, safeguard reporters, and uphold the public’s right to know.

When: 8 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Amnesty International

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Wed, May 13 - PRGN Influence Insights Launch Event

What: The key findings of the PRGN Influence Insights 2026, the second edition of the global survey on brand influence.

Who: Abbie S. Fink, Marketing Committee Chair, PRGN; Frédéric François, President, PRGN; Jeffrey Henning Chief Research Officer, Researchscape International; Gábor Jelinek Executive Director, PRGN.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: The Public Relations Global Network 

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Wed, May 13 - Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education, and the Future of Knowledge

What: This panel will address what it will take to ensure that students, educators, and institutions retain real agency in the age of AI. If AI is like many widely accessible technologies that have come before, then existing institutions remain the key drivers of change. But if AI fundamentally reshapes knowledge architecture, then the institutions of higher education that have long shaped that foundation face a deeper strategic reckoning.

Who: George Siemens, Professor and Executive Director of the Learning Innovation and Networked Knowledge Research Lab, University of Texas at Arlington; Prem Trivedi, Director, Open Technology Institute, New America; Kevin Carey, Vice President, Education & Work; Sydney Saubestre Senior Policy Analyst, Open Technology Institute, New America.

When: 12:00 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: New America  

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Wed, May 13 - True Fakery: How Publishing Scams are Cheating Writers. And what you can do about it

What: Join four of the world’s leading investigators of publishing scams who will tell you how to detect and protect yourself from on-line scammers and seek legal resolution if you have been scammed.

Who: Kelly Burke investigative reporter, The Guardian; Chris Kayser. President & CEO of Cybercrime Analytics; Victoria Strauss, author of nine fantasy novels.

When: 1:30 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: American Society of Journalists and Authors

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Thu, May 14 - ChatGPT for Higher Education Faculty

What: Join this live faculty-facing training session to learn how to use ChatGPT Education confidently, responsibly, and practically in your teaching, research, and academic workflows. We’ll walk through repeatable uses for course planning, assignment design, student support, literature review, writing feedback, and administrative tasks, with demos showing how Workspace Agents can help you build reusable workflows tailored to your courses, research projects, and department needs.

Who: Kirk Gulezian, Education & Government, OpenAI.

When: 11 am, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: OpenAI Academy

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Thu, May 14 - AI in Media Sales: Where to Start 

What: You’ll learn the top four ways AI can support your sales efforts, from improving communication and efficiency to increasing both the quality and quantity of your outreach. We’ll also introduce seven accessible AI tools that can deliver quick wins and measurable ROI, helping you build momentum without overcomplicating your process.

Who: Jeff Gallop and David Buonfiglio of AdApt Media Sales.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free to members, $15 for nonmembers

Sponsor: New England Newspaper & Press Association

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Thu, May 14 - Using ChatGPT for Excel

What: Join us for a  Skill Lab on ChatGPT for Excel, a spreadsheet experience that lives in a sidebar inside Excel.  We’ll walk through how to scope a workbook task, prompt with the right sheets in context, ask for a plan before larger edits, and review formulas, citations, and changed cells. You’ll leave with a practical framework  and resources for how to use ChatGPT in Excel.

Who: Juliann Igo, GTM, OpenAI.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: OpenAI Academy

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Thu, May 14 - Introduction to Proposal Writing

What: Are you new to proposal writing or want a quick refresher? If so, you don't want to miss one of our most popular classes! This indispensable class will give you a step-by-step guide to creating a grant proposal to a foundation.

Who: Ivonne Simms, Educational Programming Manager, Candid.

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Candid

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Thu, May 14 - Inside Award-Winning Investigative Reporting: Lessons from A-Mark Prize Winners

What: Join us for an inside look at award-winning investigative journalism.  This webinar brings together this year’s A-Mark Prize winners for a candid conversation about how impactful investigative stories come to life—from idea to publication.

Who: Panelists Monica Cordero (Investigate Midwest) and Sarah Weber (Sioux County Capital Democrat) will share the reporting strategies, challenges, and lessons behind their winning work. The discussion will be moderated by Erin Jordan, Associate Professor of Practice at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

When: 2 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: $35

Sponsor: Online Media Campus

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Fri, May 15 - Enhancing public records work with LLMs

What: Explore the Python libraries for the MuckRock Requests and DocumentCloud APIs and how they can be used with large language models to streamline records requests assist in analyzing responsive documents.

When: 1 pm, Eastern

Where: Zoom

Cost: Free

Sponsor: Sunlight Research Desk

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Vox Sine Persona (voice without person)

Self-continuity is one of the things that underpins actual agency—and with it, the ability to form lasting commitments, maintain consistent values, and be held accountable. Our entire framework of responsibility assumes both persistence and personhood. An LLM personality, by contrast, has no causal connection between sessions. The intellectual engine that generates a clever response in one session doesn’t exist to face consequences in the next. -Ben J Edwards writing in ArsTechnica   

AI definitions: Transhumanism

AI definitions: Transhumanism is a movement that advocates attempting to unlock human potential through artificial intelligence and science, with the goal of overcoming biological limitations and combating aging and illness to achieve immortality. This might be accomplished through humans merging with machines or uploading human consciousness into digital realms. In effect, transhumanism seeks to redefine what it means to be human. In 1957, Julian Huxley summarized the term as “man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature.” Critics warn that this effort could erode the very qualities that define humanity, such as empathy, vulnerability and shared experience, while exacerbating social inequalities.

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