Michael Simon

AI ethics & Privacy lawyer, #legaltech expert. Battling the soulless minions of orthodoxy. All opinions my own, even snark I really should blame on someone else

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

To my friends and connections here - I have stayed because I can connect with many of you nowhere else. I had hoped things would get better. Now it is clear that they won't.

Musk has the Nazi cesspool he wants: https://t.co/PlNTX6B7O5

See you on LinkedIN, I guess . . .

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@jtredennick Nothing screams credibility like some quality Lorem Ipsum dummy text

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@jontalotta @RadioFreeTom Hey! What's a little Fascism if it helps sell subscriptions, right?

I mean, think of those big bonuses the NYT editors will get to spend . . . before they are carted away to "Reducation Camps," that is.

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@ItsMattsLaw Pffft, like Lauren didn't start it

Come in, we all know about her, right?

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@NickJRishwain There's got to be some mattress tags in your house right now, just silently screaming "go ahead, violate Federal law!"

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@Judgeschlegel If they typed their brief in Word, they used AI - not just for the spell and grammar-checks, but for the next-word suggestions

Is that "generative AI" versus "predictive AI?" That's semantics, and all generative AI is (at least for now) just prediction at massive scale

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@ItsMattsLaw The horror
The horror

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@NiallHarbison @liamgallagher Because maybe . . . you're gonna be the one that saves me

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@ronfriedmann @FT Of course!

We are almost always hearing only the perspective of those engaged in the high-level intellectual work of our profession

Survivorship bias is a thing, and it is very real in Legal

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@ronfriedmann @FT My "favorite" one so far is a recent ACEDS post by a judge explaining in great detail the high-level intellectual pursuits that lawyers do that AI can never replace - while saying that AI will eliminate all of the "lesser" work, i.e., 90% of what associates and paralegals do

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@ronfriedmann @FT Cue the anguished counter-tweets by those who keep telling us that AI will never replace lawyers because it will just replace all that "drudge work" instead, while ignoring that so much of what we do - and charge for - is, in fact, drudge work

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@ContrarianJolly @alexgsmith @sainsburys PFFFFT! Come on! We all know that this would be solved by Blockchain.

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

I, for one, know now that at least I won’t be the first one in the line for “reeducation” by our new robot overlords (whom I have also welcomed).

[Alex Su @heyitsalexsu]

Training the AI that’ll replace first year associates

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@nikiblack @Slate Also, the level of recursiveness here is yet to be determined . . . there may well be several layers of our new robot overlords needed to save us from our new robot overlords

Perhaps it is new robot overlords all the way down?

In any event, I, for one, shall welcome them all!

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@nikiblack I, for one, hope that Terminator 5 does not start with someone asking one of our new robot overlords for $5 . . .

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@AlexHamiltonRad @nealstephenson If only the trained eagles would save us at the end

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@AnalyticLaw “Xcretions”

[Michael Simon @RoninMikeSimon]

@NickJRishwain Only if the real treasure is the friends that we made along the way