Tag Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Don’t Be a Zombie:  Develop Your Own AI Centaur System

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a regular part of professional practice.  Practitioners can use AI to prepare, organize information, brainstorm questions, draft communications, and think through difficult situations. The value of AI depends substantially on how people use it.  Consider the difference between using AI in centaur mode and zombie mode. An AI centaur system … Continue reading Don’t Be a Zombie:  Develop Your Own AI Centaur System →

New Resources for Law Students and Disputants

The RPS Coach homepage not only describes the AI tool, the values embedded in it, and the topics it covers.  It also includes a publications section with practical guides and tools that people may freely use, distribute, and post on their own websites. I recently added several new resources that may be useful in legal … Continue reading New Resources for Law Students and Disputants →

Teaching Mediation This Fall?  Consider Starting with a Story

Are you putting the finishing touches on your syllabi for the fall?  If you’re teaching mediation, interviewing, counseling, and negotiation, an ADR survey course, or a related subject, you might consider including a fun new teaching resource in your course. What Happened? A Mediation Story Featuring RPS Coach is a plausible story that students can … Continue reading Teaching Mediation This Fall?  Consider Starting with a Story →

Have You Used RPS Coach?  I’d Love Your Testimonials and Feedback – by Friday, June 26

I’d love your help. Mediate.com created a terrific new webpage for RPS Coach, with information about its core values, suggestions for getting the best results, descriptions of the topics it covers, and links to the publications incorporated into the tool.  Take a look at the homepage. Now I’d like to add a Testimonials page. Many … Continue reading Have You Used RPS Coach?  I’d Love Your Testimonials and Feedback – by Friday, June 26 →

Mediate.com Hosts RPS Coach

If you want to learn how you can benefit from RPS Coach, check out the new Mediate.com webpage. RPS Coach is a free AI tool offered as a public service.  It is designed to help mediators, attorneys, parties, educators, students, trainees, and ADR program administrators prepare for and participate in negotiation and mediation.  It reflects … Continue reading Mediate.com Hosts RPS Coach →

Are You Afraid of Becoming a Zombie If You Use AI?

Many people fear that artificial intelligence (AI) will undermine human skills, making them less capable of exercising independent judgment.  They worry that machines take control and humans lose control. Sometimes that’s exactly what happens. This problem, in my view, is not primarily that AI is too powerful. The problem is that some people don’t recognize … Continue reading Are You Afraid of Becoming a Zombie If You Use AI? →

Could AI Hallucinations Improve Professional Thinking?

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You’re hallucinating if you think AI won’t hallucinate. Reports of fake citations, fabricated quotations, manipulated images, and AI-generated misinformation now appear regularly.  Lawyers using generative AI have submitted fictitious cases in court filings and have been sanctioned. These developments understandably alarm legal and dispute resolution professionals.  They should. My article, The Surprising Value of AI … Continue reading Could AI Hallucinations Improve Professional Thinking? →

I Knew Colin Rule Was Impressive.  But I Didn’t Know the Half of It.

I have known Colin Rule for more than twenty years.  During that time, I knew that he had done a lot of impressive things in ODR and that he’s a real mensch. What I didn’t appreciate until recently was the extraordinary breadth of his work, the depth of his thinking, and how much he has … Continue reading I Knew Colin Rule Was Impressive.  But I Didn’t Know the Half of It. →

California’s Proposed Ethics Rules Emphasize Duty to Avoid AI Hallucinations

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The State Bar of California has proposed amendments to comments accompanying several Rules of Professional Conduct addressing lawyers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI). The proposed comments do not create new ethical duties.  Rather, they elaborate how existing rules apply to lawyers’ use of AI.  Although the proposed comments would apply only in California, they make … Continue reading California’s Proposed Ethics Rules Emphasize Duty to Avoid AI Hallucinations →

AI Tools for Law Faculty

The AALS and West Academic sponsored a great CLE on AI tools for law faculty on April 15.  Here’s the description of the program and a link to the video. How can artificial intelligence streamline course preparation, enrich classroom engagement, and support student learning?  This webinar brought together experienced legal educators who shared practical strategies … Continue reading AI Tools for Law Faculty →