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Who Pays to Find Out: Legal AI use by non-lawyers
AI has made it nearly free to make legal claims. It hasn’t reduced the cost of evaluating them.
Sep 29 • Shonna Waters
What We Had in Common Was an Accident
Shared understanding used to come free with the constraints. The constraints are gone, and nobody has been given the job of replacing it.
Sep 14 • Shonna Waters
Accountability Without Agency
AI transformations keep asking people to answer for work they no longer control. The strain is by design.
Sep 8 • Shonna Waters
The Safety Culture You Can’t Opt Into
On AI’s warning essays, and the roles I never posted
Sep 2 • Shonna Waters

August 2026

Who's Allowed to Help?
What we are actually judging when we judge AI writing
Aug 23 • Shonna Waters
The Employment Situationship
The Old Model is Broken. Here’s How to Design What Comes Next.
Aug 16 • Shonna Waters
Are We Optimizing Away Our Ability to Adapt?
Every generation builds a faster tool for removing variability from work. The newest one works on ideas.
Aug 13 • Shonna Waters
Before We Ask What AI Does to Work
Every AI-impact study rests on a definition of work most of us have never examined. Let's start there.
Aug 4 • Shonna Waters
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