I bet you didn’t know that you need to train your mediator bot. This didn’t occur to me until I read this Washington Post article about biases in artificial intelligence (AI) apps. The article includes eight (!) references to bot training. In my post, Avatar Mediation, I speculated about a future market for mediation bots. … Continue reading Training Your Mediator Bot
From Gary Doernhoefer: Open AI’s very public unveiling of ChatGPT has launched the debate in many fields over how artificial intelligence (AI) could be put to good use, contrasted with its potential for misuse. There is a path for the dispute resolution profession to lead as an example of responsible development of this technology. First … Continue reading A Proposal for the Joint Development of Generative AI for the Dispute Resolution Profession
This post started as a response to Jen Reynolds’s comment about my Avatar Mediation post. It has grown into this new post about AI generally, growing anxiety about it and the state of the world, and how we can manage this anxiety. AI Risks . . . and Potential Benefits Jen wrote, “I hope that … Continue reading AI, ADR, and Anxiety
I’m sure no techie, but probably like you, I have been intrigued about stories about the ChatGPT program. One illustration was in my post, A Mediator and a Bot Walk into a Bar … Of course, artificial intelligence almost certainly will become much more sophisticated in the foreseeable future. Major tech firms have been working … Continue reading Avatar Mediation
All this AI stuff is bending my mind. It’s been around for quite a while, but the experience with ChatGPT has profoundly changed our perceptions, feelings, and expectations about it. We wonder what human skills and tasks will become obsolete as machines are able to perform some so much better, faster, and cheaper. People have … Continue reading AI and Empathy
Some of you know John Stephens, a colleague at the University of North Carolina School of Government, who has focused on conflict resolution for his long career. Like many of us, he was intrigued by ChatGPT and gave the following prompt and got the following response. Describe and contrast three main models of mediation for … Continue reading A Mediator and a Bot Walk into a Bar …
