Sean A. Harrington

Surveys claim up to 79% of attorneys use AI at their firms. That number measures exposure, not integration. My piece in the inaugural issue of Diffuse AI explains why the gap is structural and what we can do about it.

@odysseus0z @willchen500 already made an open source version of Harvey and Legora

OpenHarvey You are welcome github.com/anthropics/cla…

@ericjing_ai @Scobleizer So this replaces Yoink?

$90 App "Paste" is now free!!! This is another tool we’ve built and use internally. Today, we’re opening it up for free—anyone can download it. You don’t need any credits to use GenClipboard. It can copy and paste recordings—anything—and it’s totally free.

@b1rdmania Yeah I just dropped a piece about this on Diffuse AI. The problems are structural: diffuseai.pub/p/the-structur…

Legal AI is where fintech was in 2015. Everyone's selling to banks. Nobody's built the Monzo yet. Two days at a legal AI conference in Lisbon. $50M raises for contract review CRM tools Anthropic ships in a product update. 18-month sales B2B cycles into law firms where tech-averse partners make the final call. The gap is internal at law firms (180 day product cycles and sign off from 60yr+ partners 🥵) or 5.5m UK SMEs who can't afford a solicitor for most stuff and get nothing. Gonna ship some open source legal infrastructure this week. Early days. Wltm London solicitors bored in their current role, not tech-phobic and open to jamming on some ideas.

New Anthropic repo: Claude for Legal It gives legal teams prebuilt AI workflows for contracts, privacy, employment, litigation, corporate work, IP, AI governance, regulatory monitoring, legal clinics, and law students github.com/anthropics/cla…

@LadyNimby Curious George too

To whoever told me there were full episodes of little bear on YouTube, thank you. My 3yo loves it and it’s great for a wholesome wind-down

Favorite thing I've written in the post-ChatGPT era. Diffuse AI is the new publication on AI adoption from Daniel Bashir @spaniel_bashir (such a rad X handle 🤣), Clara Collier, and @charlesxjyang. The other pieces in issue one are also great!

Surveys claim up to 79% of attorneys use AI at their firms. That number measures exposure, not integration. My piece in the inaugural issue of Diffuse AI explains why the gap is structural and what we can do about it.

@OliverBCushing @AGTimGriffin @Clevy_Law @DanLinna Appreciate the invitation! Everyone I got a chance to speak to was super kind and had thoughtful questions.

Great AI Conference today by @AGTimGriffin. Featuring: @Clevy_Law, @DanLinna, @SeanLovesBooks, & more!

The kickoff of the Emerging Issues Series, “Innovation with Integrity: Embracing AI Responsibly in Your Legal Practice,” delivered valuable insight into the intersection of artificial intelligence and the law. AI is an incredibly powerful tool that has the potential to reshape the practice of law. But as we heard from our distinguished lineup of speakers today, AI should be used to augment, not replace, our professional judgment. I kicked off our event with an insightful conversation with Brigadier General Chad Bridges, The Adjutant General of Arkansas. General Bridges set the tone for the event by discussing the importance of leadership in implementing AI within an organization. We also heard from leading experts @Clevy_law of @HelloMalbek, @DanLinna of the @NorthwesternLaw and @NorthwesternEng, Judge Scott Schlegel of the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal, and @SeanLovesBooks of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at @ASU, as well as a presentation by the FBI Little Rock Field Office on deepfakes and AI-generated child sexual abuse materials. I am grateful to my Deputy General Counsel and Senior Advisor for AI Kevin Lee, who organized today’s event, and all my staff who worked to make this event a success. We were pleased by the strong response to the event, with more than 400 people registering. This program was incredibly valuable for Arkansas’s legal community, and I look forward to organizing future events in the Emerging Issues Series to tackle other topics. tinyurl.com/3mjbyx8t #arnews @arkansasguard

Wemby ejected?!

@cyrusjohnson Hold on 🤣 How is this ANY different than something like Westlaw Deep Research or Vincent AI? Arguably, Westlaw is doing the more interesting move by training its own model on its own data (which the Frontier models don't have).

The day LexisNexis beat Thomson Reuters. It’s today. This is the way. Pitch perfect. TR still building a wonky LLM slop model this summer “Thomson”? Will they pivot? They had better.

A Chinese court has ruled it illegal to replace human workers with AI purely for the sake of cost-cutting. The court decided that companies hold a social responsibility to treat workers fairly and pay them what they're worth.

Close enough. Welcome back NBA Street

@DeemosTech @OpenAIDevs Found one: x.com/0x0funky/statu…

@DeemosTech @OpenAIDevs Has anyone seen a pixel art version of this with slicers and such?

We build a Skill.md for it🔥 @OpenAIDevs #Codex + #GPT-5.5 + #Hyper3D Rodin: one-click animated game assets. (This track looks goofy 😂 Try our Skill in any Coding Agent, interactive #3D Asset from image/text ⬇️

Harvard added a compulsory AI module to its writing curriculum:

@AaronBergman18 Yeah, this is one of the barriers to diffusion in legal. I’ve got an article come out about it soon.

Wtf

🚨New preprint! We find evidence of LLMs enabling people to file lawsuits without lawyers (filing "pro se") at historically unprecedented rates in federal courts.👇 1/n

POV: You just paid S&C, one of the three most expensive and high-powered law firms in the world, $3000 per hour to submit AI slop to the court on your behalf. No one is safe.