Should lawyers be trusted with technology?

https://www.bespacific.com/do-we-need-more-technologies-in-courts-mapping-concerns-for-legal-technologies-in-courts/

Do We Need More Technologies in Courts? Mapping Concerns for Legal Technologies in Courts

Barysė, Dovilė, Do We Need More Technologies in Courts? Mapping Concerns for Legal Technologies in Courts (September 6, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4218897 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4218897

“Courts use progressively more technologies, and there is no consensus on how much and what technologies would benefit or harm courts and in what ways. The analysis of the variety of concerns in law is gaining momentum. However, there is little data on lawyers’ beliefs and attitudes toward technologies in courts. In this study, practicing lawyers and researchers from three countries were interviewed to map their main concerns for technologies in courts. Thematic analysis was conducted. The main reasons for skepticism toward technologies in courts are based on the lack of knowledge, research, and regulation. The primary concerns involve specific properties of technologies, effects on human decision-making, issues in the legal system, lack of research, advantages and disadvantages in access, equality, effectiveness, and fairness, and the “human factor”. The latter includes the need for human interaction, flexible decision-making, and perceived fairness. More focus on humans in human-automation interaction is needed.”

Resources.

https://www.bespacific.com/a-list-of-text-only-news-sites-updated-2022/

A List Of Text-Only News Sites (Updated 2022)

Greycoder: “Text-only websites are quite useful, especially today. Web pages are increasingly filled with ads, videos, and bandwidth-heavy content. Here is a list of text-only, clutter-free news sites:

Tools & Techniques. (I’m still trying to predict next week)

https://www.openculture.com/2022/10/how-to-predict-what-the-world-will-look-like-in-2122-insights-from-futurist-peter-schwartz.html

How to Predict What the World Will Look Like in 2122: Insights from Futurist Peter Schwartz

“It’s very easy to imagine how things go wrong,” says futurist Peter Schwartz in the video above. “It’s much harder to imagine how things go right.” So he demonstrated a quarter-century ago with the Wired magazine cover story he co-wrote with Peter Leyden, “The Long Boom.” Made in the now techno-utopian-seeming year of 1997, its predictions of “25 years of prosperity, freedom, and a better environment for a whole world” have since become objects of ridicule. But in the piece Schwartz and Leyden also provide a set of less-desirable alternative scenarios whose details — a new Cold War between the U.S. and China, climate change-related disruptions in the food supply, an “uncontrollable plague” — look rather more prescient in retrospect.

The intelligent futurist, in Schwartz’s view, aims not to get everything right. “It’s almost impossible. But you test your decisions against multiple scenarios, so you make sure you don’t get it wrong in the scenarios that actually occur.” The art of “scenario planning,” as Schwartz calls it, requires a fairly deep rootedness in the past.

Tools & Techniques. (Has potential but need work)

https://www.bespacific.com/consensus-evidence-based-answers-faster/

Consensus – Evidence-Based Answers, Faster

Consensus: “Consensus only searches through peer-reviewed scientific research to find the most credible insights to your queries. We recommend asking questions related to topics that have likely been studied by scientists. Consensus has subject matter coverage that ranges from medical research and physics to social sciences and economics. Consensus is NOT meant to be used to ask questions about basic facts such as: “How many people live in Europe?” or “When is the next leap year?” as there would likely not be research dedicated to investigating these subjects..”