Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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One of the most nice guys I know, a guy called Patrick Ball, founded an organization called the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, HRDAG, H-R-D-A-G.org.
What they do is rigorous statistical extrapolation of the full scope of crimes during civil wars and genocides and war crimes that are then brought to the Hague, to truth and reconciliation, to the International Criminal Court.
as part of the way that we hold to account people who committed crimes during these horrible confrontations.
Patrick, like I say, is one of the greatest programmers I've ever met, and he's found all kinds of ways, along with his colleagues, to use AI in the justice work they do.
So, for example, they partner with Innocence Project New Orleans.
and they have looked at the successful exonerations they've done and they take the arrest reports and they extract the linguistic correlates of an arrest that is likely to give rise to an exoneration.
And then they take all of the arrest reports and they figure out which ones share those correlates and they start there.
No one is robo-lawyering these things.
And look, they're not fools.
They understand that there might be a kind of exoneration they've never done before.
They're going to miss this way.
So it's not the only way they approach it, but it is a way that they're getting more bang for their buck.
And here, bang for buck is someone who is innocent and in prison in Louisiana goes free.
So that's a great use.
Yeah, I would never use it for interpretation, right?
I'd never use it to translate a book.
I'd never use it in place of someone at a negotiation.
But I have these very funny Zoom calls with my family in the former Soviet Union.
I'm the youngest person in my family who speaks any Yiddish.
Anyone younger than me may speak some English, the ones in Russia, but otherwise just speak Russian.
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