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Artificial Intelligence | LawFirms

Worth Reading – The AI Strategy Divide in Law: Thomson Reuters Survey Says Strategic AI Adoption Is the Key to AI Success
ByMike McBride June 27, 2025June 27, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

The challenge, of course, is who is driving the strategy? If firm leadership isn’t driving it, you could wind up with AI adoption being pushed from the ground up, and strategic decisions being left to IT personnel or a Tech committee that lacks the authority to make those decisions. In the vacuum of leadership on AI adoption, though, someone will step in.

It just might not be the people who are making the most strategic decisions for your firm.

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Mental Health | SocialNetworking

Worth Reading – To Change Your Life, Start With Your Algorithm
ByMike McBride June 21, 2025June 20, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

My advice to you is to find the content that gives you hope, even if it’s just content that makes you laugh. We need more of that and a lot less outrage.

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Mental Health

Worth Reading – Your ‘Culture’ is a Lie Until You Fund Mental Health
ByMike McBride June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

The culture you describe would be working toward solutions to the epidemic of burnout and anxiety. Especially the stress that results from financial instability, caregiving responsibilities, and discrimination, to name a few. A good workplace culture addresses these issues by providing a living wage, flexibility, and equal opportunities, among other benefits related to quality mental health care.

An app doesn’t show that you care, and if you don’t care, you have no culture.

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Artificial Intelligence

Worth Reading – This Isn’t Law and Order. It’s Narrative Control.
ByMike McBride June 14, 2025June 18, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

I don’t particularly care what side of the political aisle you’re on. If we can’t all agree that using fake images and videos in situations like this is beyond the pale, we are sunk. If law enforcement can create evidence and get away with it, no one is free.

We are all one image away from prison. Is that the world AI is creating? ?

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SocialNetworking

The Key to Spotting Deepfakes is Deliberately Slowing Down
ByMike McBride June 9, 2025June 18, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

In a second, most people can spot obvious AI distortions. Given a few more seconds, we get even better at it. Slowing down to look at it instead of immediately reacting impacts our ability to spot falsehoods.

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Training

Worth Reading – L&D’s Role in Employee Retention: Developing Career Pathways That Keep Talent Engaged
ByMike McBride June 7, 2025June 6, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’m not sure many organizations are designing career paths that allow someone to advance without becoming a manager, yet still grow in their careers. We haven’t been creative enough to create those career paths, nor have we been curious enough to determine what younger employees want from their jobs.

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