By now, you know that students are using AI. Some faculty express concern, and they hope that AI tools will just go away – or that students won’t use them. Not gonna happen. One recent study found that 86% of university students occasionally, frequently, or very frequently use general artificial intelligence tools. About 70% of … Continue reading What Do AI and Sex Have in Common?
This post introduces a new 27-minute video, How Faculty and Students Can Use AI Effectively, which outlines principles for using artificial intelligence in legal education and dispute resolution. It explains how to write effective prompts, assess AI responses, and use these tools responsibly. The video provides a general introduction to AI, including tips for using … Continue reading How Faculty and Students Can Use AI Effectively
Artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived – and it’s not just here to win at chess, write mediocre love poems, or suggest the perfect Spotify playlist. It’s pulling up a chair at the dispute resolution table. In When AI Comes to the Table: How Tech Tools Will Change ADR, I explore the growing wave of AI-powered … Continue reading When AI Comes to the Table: A Taste of the Future for Dispute Resolution
Imagine doing your work without word processing, spell checkers, email, the internet, search engines, voicemail, cell phones, or Zoom. That’s how you’ll probably feel in the not-too-distant future about working without artificial intelligence (AI). Innovations often seem radical at first. In time, people just take them for granted. ABA Formal Opinion 512 states that lawyers … Continue reading AI and Dispute Resolution: Why You’ll Need It Sooner Than You Think
Would you like to see how a cool AI-DR tool works? If so, come to a program, Using AI to Help Mediators, Attorneys and Parties. It will be on Zoom on Wednesday, May 28, at 10 PT, 11 MT, noon CT, 1 ET. The program will be an hour – and you can stay on … Continue reading Zoom Program on May 28: Using AI to Help Mediators, Attorneys, and Parties
I just posted a document collecting publications about the RPS Negotiation and Mediation Coach (RPS Coach), an AI tool designed to support good decision-making and reflective practice in negotiation and mediation. It includes brief descriptions and links to blog posts and articles about: Introducing RPS Coach Using Artificial Intelligence Tools Writing with the Coach Using … Continue reading Collection of Resources about RPS Coach
Despite being a card-carrying member of the if-it-ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it school of innovation, I dove headfirst into the world of AI. Why? Because it turns out to be amazingly useful. In a short piece, Technology and Me and You: Getting Comfortable with AI, I reflect on how I came to develop the RPS Coach AI tool. I … Continue reading Why This Tech-Wary Curmudgeon Went All-In on AI – And You Might Too
In my last post, I described what it’s like to write with RPS Coach, the AI tool I trained using my own writing. The process is unbelievably effective, sometimes eerie, and surprisingly enjoyable. If you missed it, here’s the short version: I upload what I’m writing and a style guide that describes my writing style. … Continue reading Using AI to Improve Your Writing (Without Losing Your Voice)
I’ve always enjoyed writing. People accuse me of not really retiring from teaching. But the truth is that I’m a writer who used to earn a living as a law professor. I like the sound, rhythm, and feel of a sentence. I like making complicated things clear. And I like that moment when something feels … Continue reading Writing with a Bot: I’m Pretty Sure I Wrote Most of This
These days, some faculty worry that students use AI to write papers without putting in much thought. It’s not always easy to tell. Some students write as if they were bargain-basement bots. Here’s one way to know for sure if students are using AI. Require them to chat with an AI tool and submit their … Continue reading AI Can Help Students Learn. You Get Better Papers. And You Know It’s Theirs.
