Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
It’s the information that you can find if you’re able to read between the lines. What would have taken a human a lot of knowledge and maybe 20 hours of searching can now be done in seconds.
— Jonah Perlin, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, commenting on AI’s ability to piece together seemingly innocuous public information and uncover facts intended to remain hidden. As an example, the ABA Journal highlighted Above the Law’s use of two AI models to identify Judge Eleanor Ross from redacted judicial-misconduct documents in about 45 minutes, a task that once would have required hours of painstaking research.
Staci Zaretsky is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky, X/Twitter, and Threads, or connect with her on LinkedIn.
