LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. To err is no longer the exclusive province of humans. Apologies to Alexander Pope. Artificial intelligence has progressed from hallucinating to enticing humans to join in the hallucination. We need a new term for hybrid human-AI errors caused by reliance on AI hallucinations. I propose “mistaiks.” Read the […]

ISSUE 23.13 • 2026-03-30 LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. This prestigious award, the Knuttie, memorializes King Knut. Or Cnut or Knute or Cnute. Or Knud or Knutur or Canuto, Canutus, Knutr, or Nuutti. (He preceded spell-check.) Anyway, Knut of Denmark conquered England, Scotland, Norway, and parts of Sweden but is best remembered for […]

ISSUE 22.50 • 2025-12-15 LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. We began this exercise with a simple question that, in generic form, is on everyone’s mind as we witness the dramatic gains in artificial intelligence: “Do we really still need (blank), or can artificial intelligence take its place?” In this case, we filled in […]

LEGAL BRIEF By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq. Do we really still need lawyers, or can artificial intelligence take their place? That’s the question we posed in my previous column, First, we fire all our lawyers … (AskWoody, 2025-09-15). We chose two popular (and free) bots, consistent with the premise that this was to avoid paying […]