Law and AI
Law, business and artificial intelligence.
An independent publication on how artificial intelligence is transforming law, business and society.
This week
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Learn to use AI
I have spent months building several systems and applications with artificial intelligence at the same time. These are demanding projects, aimed at getting capabilities and results I cannot find on the market. So I have decided to build them myself.
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Learn to use AI
An idea, a normal computer and an AI that can work on it: these are the steps I suggest to start building, organise the work and stay in control.
01 — New posts
AI and law
Anyone who connects an application to an AI model gets a monthly bill that says nothing about computers, electricity or server hours. It talks about tokens. That is what you buy and what you consume. And yet the law still does not know what they are.
AI and law
Google's revenue keeps rising, but AI is putting its cash machine under pressure: it reduces clicks, opens the door to rivals and demands much more investment.
AI and law
Clara closes the office at her administrative services firm and leaves her AI tool running. While she sleeps, someone uses her account and sells access to it. She wakes up to €1,480 in charges and a provider reminding her whose account it is.
Learn to use AI
Part two of How to build with AI: a folder with a memory, saved versions to return to and a simple way back when AI breaks something.
Analysis
I have tried free voice cloning options, and the results are quite good. That worries me: a familiar voice can convince us we are talking to someone we trust. Someone tried to deceive Ferrari that way. At Arup, a fake video call led to a multimillion-dollar loss.
Learn to use AI
First step in the How to build with AI series: install Codex or Claude Code, choose a folder and decide what your new programmer can do.
Learn to use AI
Memory, access to a computer, email, a calendar, files and a convenient way to talk to it. Productivity comes when AI can work with what you need, without you having to copy everything from one window to another.
AI in Business
Yes, in some cases. It depends on the provider, the plan and how you configure it. What Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthropic say, and what a law firm needs to ask before uploading client data.
AI in Business
With your voice and one or more bots, you can sort your email, check your calendar, keep track of projects and make decisions about documents without touching your phone. How I do it, what works and where the limit is.
La Machina
My bots work in separate conversations. I need to see the whole picture: who is doing what, what has stopped and what is waiting for my decision. That is why I am building La Machina’s app and interface.
I write about AI from the experience
of using it, building with it
and analysing the consequences.
02 — In depth
03 — In practice
Document control. Memory. Business systems. Knowledge structures.
PERSONAL ECOSYSTEM · BOTS · AUTOMATION
La Machina is my personal AI ecosystem and the factory that produces the other projects. I talk to five main bots; other helper bots work behind them. It brings together automations, connections and apps of my own. Its story starts in episode 0.
Documents · Privacy · Knowledge
With Glaux I work on converting documents to Markdown and replacing identifying data with pseudonyms. I am still working on Lince, its review tool.
Bots · Personal assistants · Agentic capabilities
Alonides is my project for creating bots and personal assistants. It works through cloning and crossbreeding: I copy the bots that work, combine the best of each and test the new generation. Each generation comes out more capable than the last, whatever model it runs on. What improves is not the model but its agentic capabilities: planning, using tools, remembering, delegating and correcting itself.
Law firms · Service businesses
Membrain is my workspace for documents and AI. I am building an interface to bring that work together.
Relations · Semantics · Ontologies
Mnemon is a relational, semantic and ontological system intended to help AI systems work with structured meaning rather than isolated files or text fragments. It is being designed to represent entities, concepts and relationships so that context can be retrieved and used more deliberately.
The perspective
Juss og KI kombinerer praktisk juridisk erfaring, ledelse av advokatvirksomhet og eksperimentering med nye KI-systemer.
About Roberto Ortega
