David Engstrom | AI and Access to Justice
HAI Seminar with David Engstrom
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HAI Seminar with David Engstrom
This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.

This seminar pairs a case study of AI diffusion with an organizational approach to technological changes in the workplace.
As AI moves beyond language into systems that can perceive, understand, and act in the physical world, a new frontier is emerging: world models—AI systems that build and maintain working representations of real environments to predict how they change in response to action.

As AI moves beyond language into systems that can perceive, understand, and act in the physical world, a new frontier is emerging: world models—AI systems that build and maintain working representations of real environments to predict how they change in response to action.
Save the Date. Artificial intelligence is transforming how researchers collect, analyze, and learn from data. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into scientific discovery, business decision-making, and policy analysis, they are reshaping both the questions researchers can ask and the methods they use to answer them.

Save the Date. Artificial intelligence is transforming how researchers collect, analyze, and learn from data. As AI systems become increasingly integrated into scientific discovery, business decision-making, and policy analysis, they are reshaping both the questions researchers can ask and the methods they use to answer them.
Abstract:
Two powerful forces are bearing down on the American legal system: mounting concern about access to justice, including the bracing fact that a majority of litigants in American courts are self-represented, and stunning advances in AI, which have brought even higher-order legal cognitions within automation’s sights. This talk will review the institutional, technical, and legal barriers to effective and trustworthy AI-based tools that can help close the justice gap, whether in a fast-growing “legal tech” marketplace or in courts themselves. On the latter, the seminar will report on a first-of-its-kind collaboration between Stanford Law School and the Los Angeles Superior Court, the nation’s largest trial court, that is rethinking the court’s digital pathways for serving court users in evictions, debt collections, and family matters.
