The obvious trap for a book about AI is that the rapid pace of new developments makes most books age quickly. It’s kind of like writing a treatise on current K-Pop stars.
Christopher Mims’ new book How to AI:
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Reducing the Risk of AI Prompt Injections: Selected Resources
Prompt Injection is generally acknowledged as the most serious vulnerability in the deployment of AI apps, and AI agents in particular. The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP), considered by many the world’s leading authority on web-facing system
Prompt Injection: The Door Left Open
Agentic AI Conventional software keeps code (instructions) strictly separate from data (the files being processed). Large language models collapse the distinction. To an agent, both are just natural language. A firm’s internal policy and an incoming email are structurally similar.
How to AI: An AI Book That Delivers
Christopher Mims’s new book, How to AI: Cut Through the Hype. Master the Basics. Transform Your Work stands out among the many AI books flooding the market.
Mims’s background and track record as a Wall Street Journal reporter covering technological
Presenting Like Phil Donahue
When and why should presenters act like Phil Donahue? Sara Kubik knows.
Sara recently observed: “I anticipate having audience input and will actually encourage it. Like Phil Donahue style.”
Incorporating audience feedback can strengthen nearly any presentation.
One powerful
Lawyers, AI and Access to Justice
The New York legislature–pressured by the organized bar–is on the verge of enacting restrictions that will make it difficult to use AI to close the access-to-justice gap. Even worse, this is merely one of many similar efforts elsewhere, some statutory
Want to Reduce Hallucination Errors? Give the AI App Permission to Fail
The marketing promise for premium legal RAG-based models was a hallucination-free experience. The empirical reality is different. Why?
It is a structural problem, created by the way Large Language Models are created. The process includes inputting large amounts of information.
How Hard Should You Try To Avoid Sounding Like An AI Robot?
When did “write clearly and persuasively” go from being a goal to being evidence of robot writing?
A Wall Street Journal piece this morning discusses writers deliberately degrading their own work to dodge accusations of AI use.
- They’re scattering typos
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Has the Internet made books obsolete? Not so far as I’m concerned. I have 20+ titles in my personal library of books about presentations—and I’ve even read most of them. If I could keep only three, my choices would be:
Agentic AI: It’s A Whole New Bag of Risks
She begged “Do not do that,” then “STOP OPENCLAW.” Neither worked.
That’s what happened to Summer Yue, Meta’s Director of Alignment at their superintelligence safety lab. By the time she reached her desktop to kill the process manually, the