This webpage is designed for people who want to understand how artificial intelligence is changing the way professionals work in law, medicine, education, journalism, graphic design, software development, and others. 

Many excellent books and articles have been written about these topics.  This blog is aimed at people who don’t have time to read them, but can find about five minutes at a time to keep up with this critical and rapidly changing technology.

My name is Jim Hassett.  My interest in AI started in the 1980s, when I worked on an AI project designing an expert system for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).  Before that, I had earned a PhD in Psychology at Harvard in 1975.  I spent the next decade in academia, teaching at Boston University and as an Associate Editor at Psychology Today magazine.   

In 1985 I founded a training consulting company which peaked at over 40 employees in our offices in Boston, New York (at 44 Wall Street), Washington DC, and Oklahoma City (where our biggest client – the FAA Academy – was located).

In 2005, we shifted the company’s focus to training and coaching lawyers on project management and marketing, and renamed the company LegalBizDev.  Over the next 15 years, we worked with many of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the world, including Latham & Watkins, Morgan Lewis, Perkins Coie, Baker McKenzie, Fasken, and Winston Strawn.

In 2020 I retired and sold the company.  Since then, I have spent much of my free time on writing projects, including the blog “Understanding China, Five Minutes at a Time” (ChinaIn5.com). 

Over the course of my career, I published 15 books, including “The Legal Project Management Quick Reference Guide” (four editions: 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2016); “Legal Business Development: A Step by Step Guide” (2006), “Psychology in Perspective” (two editions: 1984 and 1988); and “A Primer of Pyschophysiology” (1978, translated into Russian). I have also published more than 100 articles in magazines and journals ranging from the New York Times Magazine to Bloomberg Law.

If you have any suggestions for improving this blog, and/or on AI developments which I should cover sooner rather than later, please contact me at jimhassett3@gmail.com.