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Artificial Intelligence and Legislative Drafting

October 8, 2026 2:30 amOctober 8, 2026 2:31 am

What, if any, role does (or should) legal technology, and specifically artificial intelligence, play in drafting legislation in California? As AI becomes more prevalent in our everyday lives, does AI have a role in legislative drafting? If so, how can...

The Real AI Cybersecurity Threat Isn’t Intelligence – it’s Authority

October 1, 2026 11:48 amOctober 1, 2026 11:51 am

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a new kind of employee. It can search documents, draft correspondence, write code, analyze financial data and interact with business applications around the clock. Increasingly, AI systems can do more than answer questions. They can...

Ringside: The Energy and Water Footprint of AI

September 17, 2026 6:00 amSeptember 17, 2026 6:01 am

Whether artificial intelligence should be regulated, and if so, how, has almost overnight become one of the biggest political issues of our time. And with AI comes a surge in construction of massive data centers, for which we should minimize...

Chinese Propaganda, Foreign Influence Campaign Against U.S. AI Data Centers

September 2, 2026 10:36 amSeptember 3, 2026 11:21 am

Data centers are the gigantic physical facilities that house the servers, storage, networking, and cooling systems that store, process, and move digital information. They support cloud computing, streaming, e-commerce, banking, AI, remote work, and most internet services. Data centers make...

For California’s Temporary Staffing Agencies, Trust is Not Enough

June 29, 2026 10:00 amJune 29, 2026 10:01 am

Nearly all of us are workers. Some of us are employers. All of us are customers or clients. So, when we ask, “whose job is it to protect workers?” The answer is simple: it’s everyone’s job. That truth was underscored...

AI, China, and the Collapse of Digital Trust: The Cyber Reckoning Facing America

January 16, 2026 1:00 pmJanuary 16, 2026 1:01 pm

As 2026 begins, America is staring down a long-overdue cybersecurity reckoning. What was once dismissed as an IT nuisance or a post-breach cleanup task has hardened into a national liability. Cyber risk now runs straight through the economy, politics, and...

Truth Plus Trust Equals Healing Reality, Part II

January 16, 2026 8:30 amJanuary 16, 2026 8:31 am

The second part of this paper deals with artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, and my experience with our broken healthcare system in Sacramento as a patient, not as a doctor. The story continues from here. Four days before my MRI...