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Beyond AI Slop: Preparing Law Students for Responsible Practice in the AI Era

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AI slop is coming to a legal system near you.  Actually, it probably already has. Lawyers increasingly encounter AI-generated material from clients, counterpart attorneys, self-represented parties, experts, and others. Some of it is excellent. Some is slop.  Here’s a technical illustration. Like it or not, your graduates are likely to deal with AI – including … Continue reading Beyond AI Slop: Preparing Law Students for Responsible Practice in the AI Era →

What Are We Going to Do About AI Slop?

Remember when parties developed unrealistic expectations all by themselves?  Now they have AI to help. These days, mediators may have to work through expectations that have hardened around an AI-generated assessment.  Lawyers may have to explain why the AI analysis is wrong, incomplete, or wildly overconfident.  And imagine the client’s surprise when the other side … Continue reading What Are We Going to Do About AI Slop? →

Turns Out That RPS Coach Really Is Pretty Cool

When mediate.com recently created this homepage for RPS Coach, it seemed like a good time to reflect on my amazing journey with this bot – and others’ too. I invited people to submit testimonials describing their experiences using RPS Coach, which are posted on the website.  Their responses prompted me to think about the last … Continue reading Turns Out That RPS Coach Really Is Pretty Cool →

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

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 →

Do You Know That You Use ODR?

Many dispute resolution practitioners would answer that question with a simple “no.” Until recently, I would have answered the question the same way. When I thought about online dispute resolution (ODR), I thought about specialized online platforms like eBay.  ODR seemed like a distinct corner of the dispute resolution field that was completely disconnected from … Continue reading Do You Know That You Use ODR? →

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? →