Extract from Ella Sherman’s article “Judicial AI Consortium Aims to Set the Record Straight on AI in Courts”
On Jan. 23, Judge Scott Schlegel of the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals announced the launch of the Judicial Artificial Intelligence Consortium (JAIC), an organization led by judges for judges that aims to provide clarity on the use of artificial intelligence among the judiciary in their chambers and in the courtroom.
JAIC was conceived by U.S. Magistrate Judge Maritza Dominguez Braswell of the District of Colorado, who had been writing an AI-focused newsletter online that addressed her own ideas on the technology but eventually wanted to give and get more learning out of it.
“The newsletter started with this desire to information share, to resource share, but as I was thinking about the relative impact of that, I thought there’s got to be a better way to do this, to share and learn, and me putting together a newsletter is just one judge’s perspective. … I thought to myself, wouldn’t it be great if we were all kind of in one space together talking about this and wrestling with these issues together,” Braswell said.
