Courts in Los Angeles and Riverside counties are testing an artificial intelligence tool and deciding whether it can be used in high-stakes criminal cases.
  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    I should be allowed to know if it’s looking at my case. Should be a matter of public record.

  • WesternInfidels@feddit.onlineEnglish
    2 hours

    “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant”

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    Even if it worked perfectly… isn’t clerking the way future attorneys and judges are supposed to get experience?

    • egregiousRac@piefed.socialEnglish
      2 hours

      That’s the fatal flaw with AI. If you can replace the base-level workers in a skilled field, competition will lead to most places doing that. 5-10 years later, the industry has a shortage of mid-level workers.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      4 hours

      Obviously as AI improves at clerking, it gradually works it’s way up the ladder, for a while we’ll have our VIBE lawyers until they can be fully replaced with full AI lawyers, and then repeat the process for judges.

  • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4 hours

    The law’s been blind, (supposedly) but now it’s also brain damaged. Great.