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ColinHendersonFirstEssay 3 - 28 Feb 2020 - Main.ColinHenderson
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< | Some of the greatest evil lies in the least romantic systems of human governance. | >
> | Some of the greatest evil lies in the least romantic systems of human governance. | | | Take, for instance, the pile of papers sitting on a judge’s desk and awaiting their final approval. “People seeking this, people seeking that. Trivialities. They’ll have to wait a few months. There are quite a lot of cases to settle these days.” | | | Second and more interestingly, courts could simply let machines do the work. While further research would be illuminating, common sense would dictate that automated document review of this sort is easily achievable. A machine is certainly not less likely to miss a grievous error in an uncontested divorce file, and any discrepancies could be singled out for targeted human review. Uncontested divorce filings are almost certainly not the only type of court document that could benefit from this automation. While upfront costs to a system like this might be substantial, it would almost certainly save money in the long run. | |
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< | It is difficult to imagine how this type of technology would present any of the moral threats that a machine might if it were, say, determining a sentence based on set input factors. Nonetheless, there is a reason why the legal system is so resistant to embracing this type of automation. It presents an existential threat to the concept that the “legal elite” is the only social force you can turn to with the biggest problems in your life. This is a group both human (judges, clerks, lawyers) and inscrutable (black robes, Latin phraseology, unending waiting times). | >
> | It is difficult to imagine how this type of technology would present any of the moral threats that a machine might if it were, say, sentencing someone to time in jail based on set input factors. Nonetheless, there is a reason why the legal system is so resistant to embracing this type of automation. It presents an existential threat to the concept that the “legal elite” is the only social force you can turn to with the biggest problems in your life. This is a group both human (judges, clerks, lawyers) and inscrutable (black robes, Latin phraseology, unending waiting times). | | | In order to address the seemingly innocuous evils at the heart of the legal system, we must be willing to give up the egoistic and self-serving vision of the legal elite as we know it. |
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