LLRX March 2025 Issue – 8 new articles 7 new columns

LLRX.com March 2025 Issue

• Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities – Professor of Operational Research Christina Pagel
• Climate and DEI Deleted From Government Websites, Federal Workers Fired, Colleges Erase Programs, Law Firms Blackballed, Holocaust Denied – This March 27, 2025 update by Sabrina I. Pacifici chronicles Trump’s ongoing actions to purge critical climate science and climate resources, content on diversity, heath care and education, and How Donald Trump Throttled Big Law.
• AI in Finance and Banking, March 31, 2025 – Sabrina I. Pacifici – Five highlights from this post: More than 200 Lloyds bank bosses to receive artificial intelligence training; How Much Should We Spend to Reduce A.I.’s Existential Risk?; China’s Central Bank Pushes for Artificial Intelligence Integration in Digital Finance; Why, what; and how financial services firms can be AI-First; and Euromoney report – AI in Banking.
• Museums have tons of data, and AI could make it more accessible − but standardizing and organizing it across fields won’t be easy – To see how AI can help museum collections, Bradley Wade Bishop’s team of researchers started by conducting focus groups with the people who managed museum collections. We asked what they are doing to get their collections used by both humans and AI.
• Your law firm needs a Situation Room – Jordan Furlong advises law firms that in this chaotic new world order, organizations cannot sit back waiting for the next bombshell to drop. Firms need to anticipate, analyze, and address critical new developments — before they affect the organization and its clients.
• Lawmakers worldwide want to talk to the Meta insider whose memoir is a US bestseller – after Zuckerberg took her to court – Sarah Wynn-Williams, once director of global public policy at Meta, morphed from a Zuckerberg acolyte to author of a scathing memoir on the company. John Hawkins’ book review covers Mark Zuckerberg’s attempts to muzzle his former employee, and how the plan backfired and helped create a bestseller.
• Interview: Jerry Lawson – Attorney, legal tech expert, author, writer and educator Jerry Lawson shares an interview about his background, his career as a civil service lawyer, and his extensive contributions to continuing legal education programs from the nascent World Wide Web to present day innovations in AI technology.
• Without a Trace: How to Take Your Phone Off the Grid – Monique O. Madan and Wesley Callow from The Markup walk us through each step to safely purchase, set-up, and connect an off-the-grid phone, using multiple email accounts, and thereafter how and when to use it, keeping it otherwise turned off and not connected to WiFi.
• Does the Government Decide What Your Law Firm Will Do? Jordan Furlong states that “If anyone’s going to speak up, it should be law firms. If anyone’s going to take a stand, it should be law firms.” This position resonates as more than 20 major law firms have been directed by Trump’s EEOC to provide information about their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) related employment practices.
• AI in Finance and Banking, March 18, 2025 – Sabrina I. Pacifici – Five highlights from this post: The Finance Sector Is Hitting an Inflection Point With AI; Artificial Intelligence and the Labor Market; China’s central bank vows to promote applications of AI large language models; AI and the Extended Workday: Productivity, Contracting Efficiency, and Distribution of Rents; and The AI supply chain – We find that the LLM agents display mixed performance in these general tasks. They lack the awareness to learn from mistakes and the capacity for self-correction. LLMs’ performance in the most complex cognitive subtasks may not be the limiting factor for their deployment in real-world environments. Instead, it would be important to evaluate the capabilities of AGI-aspiring LLMs through general tests that encompass multiple cognitive tasks, enabling them to solve complete, real-world applications.
• Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, 5 new columns for March 2025

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