Amy Coney Barrett’s appearance-palooza in support of her new $2 million book just keeps on giving. Her particular version of deliberately obtuse reactionary that diligently works toward the right-wing political goal of the moment is garnering attention — even as the dumb act enrages.
Last week, ACB took her show on the road — appearing at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Greeted by protests, Barrett shilled familiarly disingenuous lines like, “It’s my job to do what the law requires without respect to what reaction it may elicit from the outside. To do this job you have to be willing to be unpopular.”
Before you strain your eyes rolling them so hard, let’s focus on ACB’s thoughts on the buzz word of the year — AI.
As reported by Bloomberg Law, Barrett has it on “‘good authority’ that lawyers preparing to argue before the Supreme Court have sought help from AI to identify potential questions they’ll face—and then, ‘scarily,’ heard those queries repeated from the bench.” Scary? Nah. Entirely predicable? Yes.
Artificial intelligence is designed to crunch the data and determine what is most likely to happen. Using that to prepare for what questions are likely to appear during oral arguments… actually makes a ton of sense. Maybe the frightening aspect is how predictable the justices truly are.
The scariest thing about AI in legal is the potential for hallucinating, creating facts or law out of whole cloth. But the humans are already doing that! By the time cases — particularly on hot-button issues — make it to the High Court, rather than solidify around the (capital T) Truth, the facts often morph. Like the school prayer coach case where the coach in question was never actually fired, yet references to his being fired were made 15 times during oral arguments. Almost like that “fact” was hallucinated. AI: it’s just like us!
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1 or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.
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Amy Coney Barrett’s appearance-palooza in support of her new $2 million book just keeps on giving. Her particular version of deliberately obtuse reactionary that diligently works toward the right-wing political goal of the moment is garnering attention — even as the dumb act enrages.
Last week, ACB took her show on the road — appearing at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Greeted by protests, Barrett shilled familiarly disingenuous lines like, “It’s my job to do what the law requires without respect to what reaction it may elicit from the outside. To do this job you have to be willing to be unpopular.”
Before you strain your eyes rolling them so hard, let’s focus on ACB’s thoughts on the buzz word of the year — AI.
As reported by Bloomberg Law, Barrett has it on “‘good authority’ that lawyers preparing to argue before the Supreme Court have sought help from AI to identify potential questions they’ll face—and then, ‘scarily,’ heard those queries repeated from the bench.” Scary? Nah. Entirely predicable? Yes.
Artificial intelligence is designed to crunch the data and determine what is most likely to happen. Using that to prepare for what questions are likely to appear during oral arguments… actually makes a ton of sense. Maybe the frightening aspect is how predictable the justices truly are.
The scariest thing about AI in legal is the potential for hallucinating, creating facts or law out of whole cloth. But the humans are already doing that! By the time cases — particularly on hot-button issues — make it to the High Court, rather than solidify around the (capital T) Truth, the facts often morph. Like the school prayer coach case where the coach in question was never actually fired, yet references to his being fired were made 15 times during oral arguments. Almost like that “fact” was hallucinated. AI: it’s just like us!
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1 or Mastodon @Kathryn1@mastodon.social.
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