What Child is This?
A small newsletter on legaltech
AI
A report was released last week by AI researchers that tries to predict a likely scenario for the rise and deployment of artificial general intelligence as soon as 2027 [NY Times article ($) | Report]
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released two memoranda regarding AI usage and acquisition within federal agencies
OpenAI is offering all college students two free months of access to ChatGPT Plus, which includes access to its new reasoning-model feature, Deep Research
From a GAO report on improving the framework for data and analytics in U.S. military systems: “members of the XVIII Airborne Corps targeting team processed 55 targets per day in support of a contingency operation but officials told us that they believe that number could grow to 5,000 targets per day using advanced artificial intelligence tools in the future” [404 Media ($) | GAO report]
AI Fabrication follies
An v. Archblock, Inc. (Del. Court of Chancery) [Letter Opinion | Order]
3 Geeks and a Law Blog has an episode inspired by the Law360 survey published last month that found 62% of attorney respondents prefer using ChatGPT for their legal work over legal-specific GenAI tools
A bipartisan coalition of Senators and Representatives have re-introduced the NO FAKES Act to provide liability for the creators, distributors and hosts of unauthorized digital replicas (aka deepfakes) [Bill text | ]
From Bloomberg Law [$]
“AI Hallucination Sanctions Grow as Judges Get Punitive”
“US Courts Cautiously Experiment With AI to Speed Up Their Work”
Prof. Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University has posed some questions on agentic AI, end-to-end encryption and privacy
Can vibe-coding help with access to justice? And how GenAI can help deliver significant assistance to self-represented litigants
Why lawyers are turning to vibe-coding under the radar to build their own AI tools (without the approval of their firms)
Data Privacy
There’s talk that there will be a proposal to simplify the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to help accelerate European innovation after a report last year criticized the implementation of the regulation, focusing on fragmentation and inconsistent enforcement among the member states
A T-Mobile product that allows parents to track the location of their children recently had a glitch where the names, pictures, and locations of random children were displayed instead of family members [404 Media ($) | Malwarebytes blog]
Long Reads
Gerlich, Michael, AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking (2025). Societies, 15, 1: 6. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc15010006
Wilf-Townsend, Daniel, Artificial Intelligence and Aggregate Litigation (March 01, 2025). 103 Wash. U. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5163640 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5163640
Rozenshtein, Alan Z. and Frazier, Kevin, Large Language Scholarship: Generative AI in the Legal Academy (April 01, 2025). Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5200768 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5200768
Events
June 20, 2025, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA : ICAIL workshop on AI & Access to JusticeAI for Access to Justice (AI4A2J@ICAIL 2025); Hybrid – in-person and virtual participation available https://suffolklitlab.org/ai-for-access-to-justice-at-the-international-conference-on-ai-and-law-2025-ai4a2j-icail25/