Court Review
AJA's well-respected quarterly publication, Court Review, features current articles on trends, innovations, and topics of practical interest to judges. The current issue's featured articles are excerpted below.
Examining AI Issues for Judges
Volume 61, Issue 2
Understanding GenAI: What Courts Should Know
AI Rapid Response Team, National Center for State Courts
AI has the potential to increase court efficiency and expand access to justice for self-represented litigants. But like any technology, AI is not infallible or without risks. Courts need be aware of the capabilities and potential limitations of GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and CoPilot (popular GenAI tools at the publication of this document).
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Large Language Models, Newer, More Powerful Large Reasoning Models, and the Courts
By Pablo Arrendondo and Javed Qadrud-Din
When properly leveraged, and not pushed beyond its capacity, AI can help courts manage burdensome tasks like reviewing mountains of documents or parsing the streams of petitions and adversarial advocacy pouring into a judge's chambers. But the success of any system that utilizes AI tools depends entirely on human oversight. More.
Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic ...
By Damien Patrick Williams
Why are we surprised when human-made systems do exactly what we've taught them? More.
- Complete Issue
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Directory of Officers and Board of Governors, 2024-2025
- Understanding GenAI: What Courts Should Know
- Large Language Models, Newer, More Powerful Large Reasoning Models, and The Courts
- Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic...
- Principles and Practices for Using AI
- Evidentiary Issues Raised by Artificial Intelligence
- AI Ethics Self-Assessment Checklist
- Bench Card: Acknowledged AI-Generated Evidence
- Bench Card: Evaluating Unacknowledged AI-Generated Evidence
- Want to Know More About AI? (Reprint)
- Thoughts from Canada: The Operation of Autonomous and Semi-Autonomous Motor Vehicles - Can Canada's Criminal Driving Laws Adapt?
- Crossword
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