Tom O’Connor Digs Into Legal AI

A horse with it's mouth open

Doug Austin of eDiscoveryToday covered Tom O’Connor’s provocative posts on Artificial Intelligence. Given many chances to reframe, Tom O’Connor dug deeper and wrote more.

Nah. I was being nice.

Tom O’Connor

A few weeks ago, Tom’s post on his Techno Gumbo blog (Is the New NIST Standard for AI Looking at the Wrong End of the Horse?) discussed the trustworthiness of AI.  And I got a lot of comments about my choice of graphics to go with that theme (which some assumed, at least playfully) that it was a commentary on Tom himself.  Far from it – just having a little fun with the analogy.  🙂

Doug Austiin of eDiscoveryToday

Unsurprisingly, Tom O’Connor doubles down on his assessments and says in answer to the question of whether he was a little harsh or over the top?  Tom’s response: “Nah. I was being nice.” 

Wondering what the fuss is about?

Read Doug’s post with links to Tom’s posts here.

Author

  • Mary Mack

    Mary Mack is the CEO and Chief Legal Technologist for EDRM. Mary was the co-editor of the Thomson Reuters West Treatise, eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel for 10 years and the co-author of A Process of Illumination: the Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery. She holds the CISSP among her certifications.

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