Ashley M. London
Law prof at Duquesne-Kline in Pittsburgh. Legal ethics and lawyer licensure reform are my areas of expertise. Fluent in ancient cemeteries, crumbling houses in VT, dachshunds, and candy.
- Trying my hand at growing some carnivorous plants. Feed me, Seymour!
- One of my hopes/wishes for 2026 is the end of the AI scam.
- Humans. We used to solve problems by being clever and thoughtful. Now we outsource our creative thinking to trash LLMs.
- Behold! The negative implications of the Cookie Clause.
- If only lawyers had some kind of guidelines, or, I don't know, ethical rules to help us do the right thing... LLMs are a scourge in the law right now. No end in sight.
- An attorney couldn't stop using Grok (?!) to help draft filings, producing "a flood of tainted filings" & apparently triggering the implosion of a law firm & 3 lawyers' careers 🤖😵 The court called her misconduct "particularly egregious & prolific" cases.justia.com/federal/dist...
- Am I a fool for thinking we can still fight back? That this isn't how it all ends?
- If you have only one thing to read today... "Universities are being retrofitted as fulfillment centers of cognitive convenience." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
- Reposted by Ashley M. Londonh/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
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- Reposted by Ashley M. London“History shows us that the right to literacy came at a heavy cost…those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students & to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write & think when others once risked their lives & died for the freedom to do so”
- Reposted by Ashley M. LondonStudy after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
- Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
- Trainspotting. The middle-aged American female version.
- I think we know what to do here, authors.
- Reposted by Ashley M. LondonDid women ruin the workplace?
- Done and dusted. Just sad I can't vote in support of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in NY today! My PA elections will have to do. Go vote!!!
- Surprise, surprise.
- Reposted by Ashley M. London‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
- My students are pretty cool. Happy Halloween!!!
- Reposted by Ashley M. London“To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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- Reposted by Ashley M. LondonAt some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.
- Reposted by Ashley M. Londontl;dr 1. Studies of genAI in the classroom show that it harms learning 2. The quality of AI-generated text is irrelevant to its most negative effects on teaching 3. The way AI has entered the classroom is as a money-making project extracting new labour, not a “tool” serving teachers’ actual needs
- Reposted by Ashley M. LondonART HEIST ART HEIST ART HEIST n.pr/4o9JbkU
- Mt. Lebo in Pittsburgh says #NoKings!
- Innovation? Nah. Just Rule 34.
- Yes, yes, it does.
- Reposted by Ashley M. London“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
- Absolute perfection. 🤌😘 @merriam-webster.com
- Or law. Or legal ethics.
- Our third annual Duquesne-Kline Law faculty junket with the Prime Stage troupe here in Pittsburgh at the Homewood Cemetery. It is awesome to work with people you like to ghoul around with! @rlheppner.bsky.social @profherman.bsky.social
- Imagine that! This is why I am a part of the Lebo Unplugged movement in my own community. Kids do not need cellphone access in school. It doesn't make them safer during an incident either. (Banning guns would, though. But that's another battle.)
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- I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
- MR 1.1 Competence. ABA Opinion 512. There is literally no excuse for submitting docs to the court with fake citations. Zero.
- #LegalEthics Tidbit: Do I have a duty to detect opposing counsel’s #AI use? A CA attorney used #ArtificialIntelligence to write an appellate brief, didn’t bother to check the cites, and the result was over twenty hallucinated and fake citations. The Court ... (cont.) lnkd.in/eQQNJGTu #lawsky #law
- This is the way.
- the more you learn about genAI, the less likely you're to use it!!! www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a... I've repeatedly said in the past that meaningful change to the current disastrous reality is via combating big tech narrative & rhetoric and critical public awareness, which enables refusal/resistance
- Reposted by Ashley M. London"Sunday is the 89th anniversary of the last thylacine's death at Hobart's Beaumaris Zoo in 1936, which marked the end of the species commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger." 🧪
- And my Professional Responsibility class just studied the case that got him disbarred. Hard to teach legal ethics in this post-ethics world we live in, let me tell you.
- Surprise, surprise. AI is literally the worst. Or the best if destroying human cognition is your end game.
