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AI ran into the cold hard reality of the legal profession

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/ai_attorneys/
7•blackcoffeerain•1h ago

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jqpabc123•1h ago
I've been saying this for over a year now --- AI is a legal liability issue waiting to happen.

And not just in the legal field. The problem boils down to the very fundamental fact that AI is based on probability and statistics.

The results can't be legally defended in many cases because they are not derived from a reasonable, logical, reproduceable decision making process.

Here is an example from the medical industry. Really *important* results shouldn't be decided by a dice roll.

https://pub.towardsai.net/the-air-gapped-chronicles-the-cour...

krishna3145•1h ago
Its the same thing , Happening for a while.
Terr_•47m ago
Pessimistic prediction: Companies are already using mandatory arbitration provisions in contracts, some will want a not-really "Expert System" to do the arbitration.

That said, an unscrupulous and lazy judge can already betray their position by outsourcing to an LLM in a personal capacity.

Rabbithole – Generate websites as users visit them

https://isarabbithole.com/
1•ajbt200128•1m ago•0 comments

Attention, gamers: The FAA wants YOU to be an air traffic controller

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/faa_gamers_air_traffic_control/
1•Logans_Run•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lythonic – Compose Python functions into data-flow pipelines

https://github.com/walnutgeek/lythonic
1•walnutgeek•3m ago•0 comments

A.I. and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Historical Approach – John Cassidy [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gb0UC1zLU4
1•aktuel•3m ago•0 comments

Reflecting on Five Years as the PSF's First CPython Developer in Residence

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/04/reflecting-on-five-years-as-psfs-first.html
1•lumpa•5m ago•0 comments

In Remembrance of John Martellaro

https://geektells.com/john-martellaro-remembrance/
1•speckx•6m ago•0 comments

ContextNest: Persistent Memory Protocol for LLMs Using YAML Graph Navigation

https://github.com/PromptOwl/ContextNest
1•sparkystacey•6m ago•0 comments

GitHub Pages Is Down

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/96r9hyz795sv
2•auguzanellato•8m ago•0 comments

Why Rural Hospitals Close

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-HEALTH/RURAL-HOSPITALS/zgpolkmdbvd/
2•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

Why Engineering Teams Need an Agentic Layer, Not Just AI Chat

https://medium.com/@simo.mut105/why-engineering-teams-need-an-agentic-layer-not-just-ai-chat-a2ad...
1•s_mutti•10m ago•1 comments

Civilian volunteers across Europe 3D print weapon parts for Ukraine

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-13/backyard-3d-printed-bomb-parts-helping-ukraine-war-effort/...
2•amarant•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: The Harness for Creative Agents

https://www.flickspeed.ai
1•taherchhabra•11m ago•1 comments

The Open Source Scam: Meta and Compliant Journalism

https://deep.liveblog365.com/en/index-en.html?post=237
2•TonyBorlini•12m ago•0 comments

Learning the Wrong Lessons from Workday Losing Its CTO to Anthropic

https://www.reworked.co/employee-experience/workday-losing-its-cto-to-anthropic/
1•Vaslo•14m ago•0 comments

Financial Stability Board chair warns of stability "triple whammy"

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/financial-stability-board-chair-warns-stability-tripl...
1•tartoran•14m ago•0 comments

How to End the Iran Crisis: Tehran Needs Positive Incentives, Not Just Pressure

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/how-end-iran-crisis
2•verdverm•15m ago•0 comments

The future of Orchestrator: ProxySQL takes takes the helm

https://proxysql.com/blog/announcing-proxysql-takes-over-orchestrator/
1•gempir•15m ago•0 comments

Norman Wildberger: The Problem with Infinity in Math [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7LvgvunVCM
1•programmexxx•17m ago•0 comments

The Cosmic Odometer

https://cosmicodometer.space
1•gaws•18m ago•0 comments

Don't Call Yourself a Programmer, and Other Career Advice (2011)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/
1•gk1•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: On-Device vs. Cloud LLMs for Agentic Tool Calling in a Real iOS App

https://subralabs.com/lab/on-device-vs-cloud-llm.html
1•martinovigiani•18m ago•0 comments

Pi and the Mandelbrot Set [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0vY0CKYhPY
1•programmexxx•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AImeter shows you how much money your agents are burning

https://github.com/saileshr/aimeter
1•saileshr7•19m ago•0 comments

Coyns – MCP-native currency for AI agent-to-agent transactions

https://coyns.com
1•PatrickDyrt•19m ago•1 comments

I solved AI text-on-image rendering by separating illustration from layout

https://partyinvitation.ai
1•nedhuang•20m ago•1 comments

Passkeys Are Too Hard

https://etodd.io/2026/04/06/passkeys-are-too-hard/
2•speckx•21m ago•0 comments

Architecture.md

https://matklad.github.io/2021/02/06/ARCHITECTURE.md.html
3•_vaporwave_•21m ago•0 comments

Is posting on LinkedIn about your startup worth it?

1•Mohd_Umar•22m ago•1 comments

Colleges are swiftly shortening bachelor degree programs

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-07/colleges-shorten-bachelor-degree-programs-to-...
1•paulpauper•22m ago•0 comments

Problem clarity, not technology clarity

https://old.reddit.com/user/absolutefounder/submitted/
1•absolutedev•22m ago•1 comments