in the press
selected news articles, interviews, and broadcast segments that feature my work or quote me. each entry links to the original source.
- mentionBitcoin Policy Institute
Data Center Dividends: A Financial Model to Ensure Rural America's Economic Empowerment in the AI Age
by Sam Lyman
Policy report on local opposition to the AI buildout that relies on the Moratorium Nation dataset, cited alongside Gallup and Marquette polling, for its count of 533 local moratorium and restriction instruments across 42 states.
covers: Moratorium Nation
- interviewABC Radio National
Americans don't agree on much these days, but are united in their opposition to data centres
Radio National Hour segment on the US data centre backlash features Bommarito as its guest — president of the ALEA Institute and author of Why Communities Fight Data Centers.
covers: This Is Server Country
- articleThe Guardian
US residents angry at datacenters 'being shoved down our throats' are recalling officials
by Eric Berger
“The company usually goes public only after the decisive votes have been taken,” said Michael Bommarito, an entrepreneur and the author of How to Fight a Data Center.
Coverage of local recall elections over data center approvals quotes Bommarito and draws on his research, which the Guardian independently confirmed.
covers: How to Fight a Data Center
- mentionLegal Theory Blog
Bommarito, Katz & Bommarito on Agentic AI in Law and Finance
by Lawrence Solum
Legal Theory Blog's download-of-the-week style notice for Agentic AI in Law and Finance by Bommarito, Katz, and Jillian Bommarito.
covers: Agentic AI in Law and Finance
- articleThe New York Times
Data Centers: The Issue Uniting Liberals and Conservatives
Reporting on the strikingly bipartisan backlash against AI data centers cites Bommarito, "a Michigan-based former tech worker who published an activist handbook."
covers: How to Fight a Data Center
- articleChicago-Kent College of Law
Chicago-Kent Professor Daniel Martin Katz Co-Authors New Book on the History, Design and Governance of AI Agents
by Kayla Molander
Chicago-Kent news feature on the release of Agentic AI in Law and Finance, the open-access textbook by Bommarito, Katz, and Jillian Bommarito on the history, design, and governance of autonomous AI systems.
covers: Agentic AI in Law and Finance
- articleLaw.com Legaltech News
FOLIO Launches New AI-Powered Tools for Categorizing and Tagging Legal Information
by Benjamin Joyner
Covers the release of new AI-powered tools from FOLIO, the open legal ontology stewarded by the ALEA Institute, designed to help organizations adopt a shared terminology for legal matters.
covers: FOLIO
- articleWKAR Public Media
Michigan data centers could require power equal to six nuclear plants
by Victoria Witke
“Bommarito crunched the numbers and found it would take about six Palisades to power DTE's 4.4 gigawatt data center pipeline.”
Reporting on Michigan's data-center power demand draws on Bommarito's independent analysis as founder of the ALEA Institute.
covers: This Is Server Country
- podcastWithout Limitation (Agents.law)
What Happens Next?
by Matt Pollins
Long-form interview tracing the GPT bar-exam experiments from a Christmas 2022 attempt to prove the model would fail, through the GPT-4 result, to where legal work and the profession go from here.
covers: GPT-4 Passes the Bar Exam
- articleLaw.com Legaltech News
SALI Alliance, Former Contributors at Odds Over Rights to Legal Matter Standard
Reports the dispute between the SALI Alliance and the ALEA Institute over the FOLIO legal ontology, addressed to Bommarito as ALEA president.
covers: FOLIO
- articleLaw.com Legaltech News
In a Gen AI First, 273 Ventures Introduces KL3M, a Built-From-Scratch Legal LLM
by Stephanie Wilkins
Feature on the launch of KL3M, the first family of legal LLMs trained from scratch on copyright-clean data, quoting Bommarito as 273 Ventures CEO and co-founder on why a domain-specific model built from first principles beats fine-tuning a general one.
covers: KL3M
- articleLegal Dive
Azure OpenAI Service has confidentiality loophole, Legaltech News reports
by Robert Freedman
Quotes Bommarito, as 273 Ventures CEO and licens.io co-founder, on the tangle of Microsoft contract documents governing Azure OpenAI confidentiality.
covers: licens.io
- articlePunto Informatico
KL3M è il primo LLM a ottenere la certificazione "Fairly Trained"
by Tiziana Foglio
Italian technology press on KL3M becoming the first LLM certified by Fairly Trained, naming Bommarito as 273 Ventures CEO.
covers: KL3M
- podcastThe Geek in Review (3 Geeks and a Law Blog)
Love and Legal Tech: Jillian Bommarito and Michael Bommarito of 273 Ventures
by Greg Lambert, Marlene Gebauer
Podcast interview with Michael and Jillian Bommarito on building 273 Ventures and KL3M as a couple and as a company.
covers: KL3M
- articleLegal IT Insider
273 Ventures launches first large-scale legal dataset for building compliant AI models
by Caroline Hill
Reports the launch of the Kelvin Legal DataPack, a 150-billion-token copyright-clean legal dataset from 273 Ventures, co-founded by Katz and Bommarito.
covers: KL3M Data Project
- articleReuters
Stellar or so-so? ChatGPT bar exam performance sparks differing opinions
by Karen Sloan
Covers the debate over the GPT-4 bar-exam percentile, quoting the response from Katz and Bommarito, who conducted the original research.
covers: GPT-4 Passes the Bar Exam
- articleBrooklyn Daily Eagle
GPT-4 AI model successfully passes Bar Exam
by Robert Abruzzese
Reports that legal scholars Daniel Martin Katz and Michael Bommarito partnered with Casetext on the GPT-4 bar-exam results.
covers: GPT-4 Passes the Bar Exam
- articleABA Journal
Latest version of ChatGPT aces bar exam with score nearing 90th percentile
by Debra Cassens Weiss
Coverage of the GPT-4 bar exam results names Bommarito and co-author Daniel Martin Katz as the research team behind the study.
covers: GPT-4 Passes the Bar Exam
- articleLawSites
GPT Takes the Bar Exam Again; This Time It Scores Among Top 10% of Test Takers
by Bob Ambrogi
Reports the GPT-4 bar-exam result from Katz and Bommarito in collaboration with Casetext.
covers: GPT-4 Passes the Bar Exam
- articleAbove the Law
New GPT-4 Passes All Sections Of The Uniform Bar Exam. Maybe This Will Finally Kill The Bar Exam.
by Joe Patrice
Names Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz as the research team behind the original GPT bar-exam study.
covers: GPT-4 Passes the Bar Exam
- mentionLegal IT Insider
Cutting through the noise: The impact of GPT/large language models (and what it means for legal tech vendors)
by Caroline Hill
Industry analysis of GPT's impact on legal technology that opens with the Katz and Bommarito GPT-3.5 bar-exam study.
covers: GPT Takes the Bar Exam
- articleABA Journal
AI program earned passing bar exam scores on evidence and torts; can it work in court?
by Debra Cassens Weiss
Coverage of the original GPT-3.5 bar-exam study names Bommarito and co-author Daniel Martin Katz.
covers: GPT Takes the Bar Exam
- articleReason (The Volokh Conspiracy)
Can GPT Pass the Multistate Bar Exam?
by Josh Blackman
Summarizes the Bommarito and Katz GPT-3.5 bar-exam paper and its finding that a model would likely pass the MBE in the near future.
covers: GPT Takes the Bar Exam
- articleThe Decoder
GPT-4 could pass Bar Exam, AI researchers say
by Maximilian Schreiner
Coverage of the Bommarito & Katz study finding a large language model would likely pass the multistate bar exam.
covers: GPT Takes the Bar Exam
- articleLaw.com Legaltech News
Law Company Elevate Acquires LexPredict and Its Data Science, AI Technology
Reports Elevate's acquisition of LexPredict, the legal AI company founded by Katz and Bommarito.
covers: LexPredict
- articleArtificial Lawyer
Legal AI Co. LexPredict Launches New UI To Widen User Base
Reports the ContraxSuite interface relaunch, naming Bommarito among the team running LexPredict.
covers: ContraxSuite
- interviewLaw.com Legaltech News (via Yahoo Finance)
LexPredict Goes Open Source, Hopes Others Will Follow
Interview with Bommarito, LexPredict co-founder and CEO, on why the company open-sourced ContraxSuite and what customers wanted from customizable legal analytics.
covers: ContraxSuite
- articleArtificial Lawyer
Dan Katz Open Sources LexPredict's Legal AI Doc Review Platform
Covers LexPredict's decision to open-source ContraxSuite, its document analysis platform, crediting Katz and co-founder Bommarito.
covers: ContraxSuite
- articleScience (AAAS)
Artificial intelligence prevails at predicting Supreme Court decisions
by Matthew Hutson
Bommarito, a study co-author, is quoted explaining the model with the example of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius.
covers: Predicting the U.S. Supreme Court (PLOS ONE, 2017)
- articleLegal IT Insider
Exigent teams up with LexPredict on contract discovery offering
by Caroline Hill
Reports the Exigent and LexPredict partnership on machine-learning contract discovery, quoting Bommarito as LexPredict CEO.
covers: LexPredict
- articleFindLaw
Supreme Court Decisions Change the Market by Billions of Dollars
by Casey C. Sullivan
Coverage of the 'Law on the Market?' study names Bommarito alongside co-authors Daniel Katz, Tyler Soellinger, and James Chen.
covers: Law on the Market? Abnormal Stock Returns and Supreme Court Decision-Making
- articleABA Journal
Law profs develop Supreme Court predictor to better understand court decisions
by Elizabeth Earl
Magazine feature on the Supreme Court prediction model built by Blackman, Bommarito, and Katz, explaining the ensemble tree approach behind its roughly 70 percent accuracy.
covers: Predicting the Behavior of the Supreme Court
- articleLegal Current (Thomson Reuters)
EXCLUSIVE: An Interview with {Marshall}+, the first computer algorithm for predicting Supreme Court cases
A profile of the {Marshall}+ prediction algorithm credits its three creators: Daniel Martin Katz, Mike Bommarito, and Josh Blackman.
covers: Predicting the U.S. Supreme Court ({Marshall}+)
- articleFiveThirtyEight
Why The Best Supreme Court Predictor In The World Is Some Random Guy In Queens
by Oliver Roeder
Feature on Supreme Court forecasting names Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz as builders of the {Marshall}+ prediction model.
covers: Predicting the U.S. Supreme Court ({Marshall}+)
- articleVox
This computer program can predict 7 out of 10 Supreme Court decisions
by Dylan Matthews
Names Katz, Bommarito, and Blackman as builders of the model that predicts Supreme Court decisions with roughly 70% accuracy.
covers: Predicting the U.S. Supreme Court ({Marshall}+)
- articleABA Journal
Law prof claims computer model predicts SCOTUS decisions with 70% accuracy
by Debra Cassens Weiss
Names Bommarito, of Bommarito Consulting, and Daniel Martin Katz as collaborators on the Supreme Court prediction model.
covers: Predicting the U.S. Supreme Court ({Marshall}+)
- articleWIRED
Measuring the Complexity of the Law
by Samuel Arbesman
A WIRED science column on quantifying legal complexity draws on Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz's work measuring the structure of the United States Code.
covers: Measuring the complexity of the United States Code
- articleThe New York Times
HR 3962 and the Serpent of Pulp
by John Schwartz
The Prescriptions blog covers a visualization by Bommarito and Daniel Martin Katz depicting the structure and complexity of H.R. 3962, the House health-care reform bill.
covers: Computational legal studies / legislative complexity