Beyond Hallucination: Semantic Laundering, Semantic Stewardship, and Prompting Aikido in Human-AI Collaboration
Abstract:
The primary conversation surrounding generative artificial intelligence centers on factual fabrication: hallucination. While hallucination matters, it represents a crude and easily detected failure mode. This paper identifies
The August issue of my Personal Strategy Compass newsletter is now available: “The Night Watchman: Converting Solitary Anxiety into Strategic Leverage.”
This issue grew out of something I started noticing in my own solitary planning blocks. Once I
It started with a routine task, as it usually does. I was using Claude to review a draft critique of an article I had some doubts about, checking the research behind a few of its assertions and testing its logic.
People seem to like my AI session transcripts where I see big AI failures. I definitely don’t like living through them, but they can be instructive to readers of this blog.Here’s an excerpt that will give you much to think
The Shower Curtain Fallacy (And Why You Are Burning Your Vitality)
I’ve just published the July issue of the Personal Strategy Compass newsletter, and it centers on a physical metaphor that hit me during my recent Q3 Personal Quarterly Offsite
In the latest episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, Tom Mighell and I turned the spotlight inward to talk about the course I just finished teaching at the University of Michigan Law School called Legal Technology Literacy and Leadership. This course
The Halftime Locker Room and the Fallacy of Blind Discipline
With the 2026 World Cup underway, it is easy to get caught up in the drama of the opening whistle. But any coach will tell you that games are rarely
The Expanding Minefield of Legal AI
I’ve been tracking a subtle but dangerous shift in the legal tech landscape. For the last few years, the entire industry has been obsessed with “hallucinations”—obvious, glaring errors like fake case citations. But as
The Door in the Hallway: Agentic AI and the Illusion of Control
We used to talk a lot about the concept of a customized, bounded news feed designed to give professionals exactly what they need to know, and nothing they
The May issue of Personal Strategy Compass newsletter is live, picking up in the silence left behind after April’s “acoustic stage” was cleared of its noise and inherited obligations.
If April was about the courage to strip the stage down
