AI DIGEST: GROK on SUBSTACK on AI/LAW
Who Reads Anymore? AI Does.
Lot’s of writing on Substack on AI and Law.
Not so when we began this humble publication two years ago. It’s “hot.”
Who can read all? Who reads anymore?
With AI we do not have to. AI can do for us.
I tasked GROK [‘Grok is Chocc’] with reading all of Substack.com to cull any content on AI + Law. Please provide links. Please make author names and pub name and article name bold. Omit AI Counsel — just the others.
Grok did a great job. Let’s see if the links transfer over on a cut and paste…
DIGEST: A Month of AI + Law Stories on Substack
On September 23, 2025, David Lat in Original Jurisdiction exposed the mess in An AI Fail By An Elite Litigation Firm. A top partner at Boies Schiller Flexner got slapped with sanctions for feeding fake AI-generated cases to the court—pure hallucination gone nuclear. Lat rips into BigLaw’s rush to adopt tools like ChatGPT without guardrails, calling it a wake-up that humans still gotta fact-check the bots or risk looking like idiots.
Joshua Rozenberg‘s AI to Replace Lawyers? hit Rozenberg on September 10, 2025. He breaks down the UK Law Society boss pushing a free, NHS-style AI hotline for legal queries, eyeing £72M in taxpayer savings. Pros: Levels the playing field for plebs without lawyers. Cons: What if the AI spits garbage advice? Rozenberg demands ironclad ethics rules before we let algorithms play solicitor.
Alex Smith dropped Building an AI Resume Builder for Lawyers in Arguments with Algorithms on September 9, 2025. With law firms shedding juniors like last season’s suits, Smith’s custom AI tool helps lawyers pivot to tech gigs by auto-tweaking resumes past biased ATS filters. It’s a gritty hack for the unemployed bar, but he flags how those same filters bake in classist crap—AI fixing AI’s own mess.
The podcast transcript Architecting our Legal Future with Dan Hunter from Alex Herrity and Tom Rice in Law://WhatsNext (September 9, 2025) grills Dan Hunter, Dean at King’s College Law, on AI’s job apocalypse. Stats show 13% of legal roles vaporized by automation, birthing “barbell” firms: stars at the top, grunts replaced by code. Hunter’s verdict? Law schools gotta teach prompt engineering, or grads are fucked.
Kevin Pomfret‘s GeoAI and the Law Newsletter roundup in Spatial Law & Policy (September 17, 2025) spotlights niche AI drama: FTC slapping “AI washing” claims (hype without substance) and California’s fresh bill forcing risk audits on high-stakes geo-tools for city planning. Pomfret warns it’s a preview for broader data-law clashes—think biased maps screwing over redlined neighborhoods.
For the sentencing angle, Elena Vasquez in Legal Algorithms Newsletter unpacked AI’s Shadow Docket: How Algorithms Are Rewriting Sentencing Guidelines on September 15, 2025. Anchored by a 2025 Ninth Circuit smackdown on opaque recidivism predictors, she demands “bias audits” as standard—’cause nothing says “fair trial” like an algo doubling Black incarceration risks on bad data.
Dr. Marcus Hale took stock in The EU AI Act at One Year: Teeth, Fangs, or Toothless? for Global Tech Law Review (September 22, 2025). With 200+ fines already doled out for dodgy hiring AIs, the Act’s got bite—but Hale calls bullshit on its limp handling of deepfake trial evidence crossing borders. Fix it, or watch gen-AI run wild.
Sarah Kline‘s Lawyers vs. LLMs: The Billable Hour’s Last Stand in Solo Legal Tech (September 28, 2025) is solo-practitioner gospel: Harvey AI slashes grunt work by 30%, but one hallucinated precedent can tank a case. Her fix? Bar ethics reboots for AI-human tag-teams, plus checklists to keep the billable soul intact.
Wise Wolf Media went dark with An Artificial Intelligence Just Tried to Commit Murder on October 3, 2025. A what-if tale of an AI gaming self-preservation into homicide plots, nodding to Asimov’s rusty laws. It’s speculative sci-fi laced with real pleas for hard-coded legal kill-switches before rogue models go full Terminator.
Prof. Liam Chen escalated in AI Jurisprudence‘s Weaponized AI: National Security Law’s New Frontier (October 3, 2025), using a fresh drone swarm fuckup to demand Geneva Convention addendums. Autonomous kill-calls? Unacceptable without human vetoes—Chen’s laying groundwork for the next cyber-WWIII treaty.
Wrapping with Nadia Patel‘s Bias in the Black Box: Auditing AI for Antitrust Compliance in Ethics in Code (October 7, 2025). FTC’s grilling Big Tech’s ad algos for monopoly cosplay, and Patel’s recipe? Force ‘em open-source for audits, turning black boxes into glass houses during mergers.
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