Laurence Ricard
@laurencericard.bsky.social
Law Professor @UOttawa. Teaching contracts and legal skills, researching legal philosophy, relational autonomy and agency, abuse in intimate relationships and institutional responses (child and adult protective services).
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"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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October 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
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The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT
GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.
www.theverge.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”
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J'ai envoyé une réponse au dernier «Carnet de l'éditeur adjoint» de François Cardinal, mais La Presse a refusé mon invitation au dialogue.
C'est donc disponible sur @revueababord.bsky.social :
www.ababord.org/Constater-le...
Partagez si vous aimez svp! 🙏
C'est donc disponible sur @revueababord.bsky.social :
www.ababord.org/Constater-le...
Partagez si vous aimez svp! 🙏
October 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
J'ai envoyé une réponse au dernier «Carnet de l'éditeur adjoint» de François Cardinal, mais La Presse a refusé mon invitation au dialogue.
C'est donc disponible sur @revueababord.bsky.social :
www.ababord.org/Constater-le...
Partagez si vous aimez svp! 🙏
C'est donc disponible sur @revueababord.bsky.social :
www.ababord.org/Constater-le...
Partagez si vous aimez svp! 🙏
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“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
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Remember this headline from last week?
August 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Remember this headline from last week?
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1/Les accusations liées à de la violence envers les enfants ont explosé de 67% au Québec:
«Quand on met les pieds dans des endroits comme la DPJ ou nos unités [d'enquête], on voit l’ampleur de la situation», dit une détective
@journaldemontreal.com
www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/07/01/p...
«Quand on met les pieds dans des endroits comme la DPJ ou nos unités [d'enquête], on voit l’ampleur de la situation», dit une détective
@journaldemontreal.com
www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/07/01/p...
«Pointe de l’iceberg»: les accusations liées à des abus physiques sur des enfants explosent au Québec
Les accusations criminelles liées à des abus physiques sur des enfants ont bondi de 67% en sept ans au Québec.
www.journaldemontreal.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
1/Les accusations liées à de la violence envers les enfants ont explosé de 67% au Québec:
«Quand on met les pieds dans des endroits comme la DPJ ou nos unités [d'enquête], on voit l’ampleur de la situation», dit une détective
@journaldemontreal.com
www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/07/01/p...
«Quand on met les pieds dans des endroits comme la DPJ ou nos unités [d'enquête], on voit l’ampleur de la situation», dit une détective
@journaldemontreal.com
www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/07/01/p...
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The president's lawyer is the office of the White House Counsel.
The lawyer advocating the position of the government is the Solicitor General of the United States.
The Attorney General works for and prosecutes cases "for The People" of the United States.
The lawyer advocating the position of the government is the Solicitor General of the United States.
The Attorney General works for and prosecutes cases "for The People" of the United States.
February 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The president's lawyer is the office of the White House Counsel.
The lawyer advocating the position of the government is the Solicitor General of the United States.
The Attorney General works for and prosecutes cases "for The People" of the United States.
The lawyer advocating the position of the government is the Solicitor General of the United States.
The Attorney General works for and prosecutes cases "for The People" of the United States.
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The Canadian public and especially political class should understand the US President is explicitly declaring economic war on Canada with the goal of ruining & then annexing it. This is not merely a tariff war and the political class shouldn’t treat it as merely that: Deal with the intent to annex.
February 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Canadian public and especially political class should understand the US President is explicitly declaring economic war on Canada with the goal of ruining & then annexing it. This is not merely a tariff war and the political class shouldn’t treat it as merely that: Deal with the intent to annex.
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The political scientists feel the same way: so much of this is also unconstitutional. It's a crisis. Right now.
There has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short) professional life between how lay folks and law profs are talking about what is happening in government right now. So much of what Trump is doing is just blatantly illegal — often in several ways at once.
February 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The political scientists feel the same way: so much of this is also unconstitutional. It's a crisis. Right now.
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Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
Pour mieux comprendre ce qui se passe au sud de la frontière: thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/meet-the-i...
Meet the Ideologue of the “Post-Constitutional” Right
Russell Vought, one of the architects behind Project 2025, believes there is nothing left to conserve. He desires revolution – and to burn down the system
thomaszimmer.substack.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Pour mieux comprendre ce qui se passe au sud de la frontière: thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/meet-the-i...
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If you’re wondering about what happened on the NASDAQ this morning, or even if you’re like my kid, saying “mom, what’s DeepSeek?” because you heard someone mention it today, this is the thread you’re looking for.
PS. Oligarchs get screwed in this timeline. Take your schadenfreude where you can.
PS. Oligarchs get screwed in this timeline. Take your schadenfreude where you can.
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 28, 2025 at 2:22 AM
If you’re wondering about what happened on the NASDAQ this morning, or even if you’re like my kid, saying “mom, what’s DeepSeek?” because you heard someone mention it today, this is the thread you’re looking for.
PS. Oligarchs get screwed in this timeline. Take your schadenfreude where you can.
PS. Oligarchs get screwed in this timeline. Take your schadenfreude where you can.
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This. And journalists must not allow them to have us calling civil rights DEI, because that is part of the propaganda.
Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings.
They are talking about civil rights
They are talking about civil rights
January 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This. And journalists must not allow them to have us calling civil rights DEI, because that is part of the propaganda.
Très émue de voir mon article de 2021 sur la lésion des droits des enfants en protection de la jeunesse cité à près d'une quinzaine de reprises tout au long du jugement pour appuyer les motifs du jugement publié ce matin par la Cour suprême du Canada.
decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...
decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...
Québec (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse) c. Directrice de la protection de la jeunesse du CISSS A - Décisions de la CSC
Cette page contient un formulaire pour lancer une recherche dans la base de données des dossiers de la Cour. Vous pouvez inscrire le numéro de dossier de cinq chiffres de la Cour suprême, ou un nom o...
decisions.scc-csc.ca
December 20, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Très émue de voir mon article de 2021 sur la lésion des droits des enfants en protection de la jeunesse cité à près d'une quinzaine de reprises tout au long du jugement pour appuyer les motifs du jugement publié ce matin par la Cour suprême du Canada.
decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...
decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...
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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
November 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
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Un bel article de Chantal Guy sur le livre du collègue Learry Gagné, L'antiwokisme en débat, réponse au supposé "wokisme" qui sévirait dans les universités.
@learryg.bsky.social
@learryg.bsky.social
Que défendent les antiwokes ?
Ces dernières années, nous avons eu des livres sur les dangers du wokisme, mais qui s’intéresse à la pensée antiwoke ? Comment elle fonctionne, ce qu’elle défend ?
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November 23, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Un bel article de Chantal Guy sur le livre du collègue Learry Gagné, L'antiwokisme en débat, réponse au supposé "wokisme" qui sévirait dans les universités.
@learryg.bsky.social
@learryg.bsky.social
I feel like this is an appropriate first post here.
November 23, 2024 at 7:23 PM
I feel like this is an appropriate first post here.