Judges and Judiciary
Sep. 15, 2026
The art of judging in the era of AI (Part 2)
As AI evolves, the meaningful question is not whether AI will touch judicial work but whether it will do so thoughtfully or haphazardly. The outcome will turn on whether we develop real AI literacy on the bench, not just prompting skills, and a pedagogy to support it.
A sign placed in 19th-century hotel rooms to introduce customers to electric lighting carried an instruction that now seems comic: "Do not attempt to light with match." The user was told instead to turn a key on the wall. The sign also assured customers that electric light was "in no way harmful to health" and would not disturb their sleep.
Those instructions made sense in their time. People were encountering a disruptive technology through the mental mo...
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