HeyJaredThe First Stride
French legal expert who left corporate legaltech to build two companies from Dhaka. I write about AI law, building in public, and the systems that keep it all from falling apart.
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The Redline #01 - “AI could kill all humans” (opens the original)
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“I personally think it is >10% within the next decade.”That’s Evan Hubinger, Anthropic’s own alignment lead, replying on X to a colleague who’d just quit. Jacob Coxon resigned from the company on September 8th, publicly accusing the industry of “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” Hubinger’s reply wasn’t a denial but a number: greater than 10% odds that AI kills every human being on the planet within ten years, from someone still drawing a paycheck t
Two-Thirds of Lawyers Use AI Daily. Most Don't Trust What It Gives Them. (opens the original)
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Fifteen percent of lawyers at large firms now say they cannot do their job without AI. They’re not saying they “use it regularly” or “find it useful.” LexisNexis’s word, not mine; is “dependent”, from a survey of 500+ UK lawyers published this month. In-house isn’t far behind at 13%.That’s not an adoption statistic. Adoption statistics don’t come with such a warning label.In this post I will:Break down what “dependent” actually means in the LexisNexis numbers, and why it isn’t the same
The AI Boomerang: When Automation Comes Back to Bite (opens the original)
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A few years ago, AI systems started hitting the market. With huge improvements made in a matter of months, sometimes weeks, companies quickly saw a way to reduce hiring cost to automate as many tasks as possible.Since 2023, hundreds of thousands of jobs have been cut under the banner of AI replacement, decision with huge consequences, leaving many people questioning the future of the job market.But, when this metaphorical boomerang was thrown, it was only a matter of time before it would come ba
Can AI Detectors Actually Detect AI? The Brutal Truth (opens the original)
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In a couple of years, AI changed the way people write online. As it becomes more efficient, it’s starting to get harder to see the difference between human writing, human writing powered by AI, and pure AI writing. Thankfully - or not - AI detectors emerged to solve that problem, kind of. Here are the top 3 AI detectors currently available.First thing first: how does an AI detector actually work?All tools in the AI-detector category use the same statistical signals: Perplexity: how predictable t
The EU AI Act Just Got Real: What Entered Into Force on August 2nd (opens the original)
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Partially pushed back to 2027 and beyond, the EU AI Act continues to come into effect anyway. A new wave of regulation just came live on August 2, 2026. Let’s look at what may affect you.Transparency obligations (Article 50) are NOW LIVEThe most important new rules are about transparency. Any system that interacts directly with individuals, such as chatbots, voice assistants or AI agents, must disclose it is AI, unless this is obvious from context.Content generation is also targeted: providers a
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