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Bridget McCormack

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
562 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

But as you know, in most intermediate appellate courts, there's a lot of opinions that are not written.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

And in trial courts, very often there's no written opinion.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

So I always want to ask, as opposed to what?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

Like, if you believe that the current human-led process

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

overburdened justice system is one where people have lots of confidence, I want to introduce you to some folks who might disagree.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

Yeah, I mean, there is that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

So if you think that's a system that instills confidence, like maybe, but I'm not sure everybody would agree with that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

Yeah, huge issue, obviously.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

We, you know, if you were to just take your dispute, you know, all the documents in some dispute you're having and throw it into ChatGPT or into Claude, you'd get, you could get a, you could get a result right now, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

Like anybody could do that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

It might be okay.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

It might in some cases not make a mistake.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

As you know, hallucinations are, you don't know, you don't know when exactly or why the frontier models are making mistakes.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

But that's not what we built, and that's why we're moving so narrowly and so slowly.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

Your system has to be governed, trained in, and grounded in the kind of reasoning that you're asking it to do.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

So it sounds extremely narrow that we're doing documents-only construction cases, but there's a reason for that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

That's where we could build a governed and harnessed agentic system.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

We keep a human in the loop to make sure that before an award issues, there were no hallucinations, even with our governance.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
The surprising case for AI judges

And we're going to be very transparent about all of our audits.