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Amy
Coney
Barrett’s
appearance-palooza
in
support
of
her
new
$2
million
book
just
keeps
on
giving.
Her
particular
version
of
deliberately
obtuse
reactionary
that
diligently
works
toward
the
right-wing
political
goal
of
the
moment
is
garnering
attention
—
even
as
the
dumb
act
enrages.
Last
week,
ACB
took
her
show
on
the
road
—
appearing
at
the
Ronald
Reagan
Presidential
Library
in
Simi
Valley,
California.
Greeted
by
protests,
Barrett
shilled
familiarly
disingenuous
lines
like,
“It’s
my
job
to
do
what
the
law
requires
without
respect
to
what
reaction
it
may
elicit
from
the
outside.
To
do
this
job
you
have
to
be
willing
to
be
unpopular.”
Before
you
strain
your
eyes
rolling
them
so
hard,
let’s
focus
on
ACB’s
thoughts
on
the
buzz
word
of
the
year
—
AI.
As
reported
by
Bloomberg
Law,
Barrett
has
it
on
“‘good
authority’
that
lawyers
preparing
to
argue
before
the
Supreme
Court
have
sought
help
from
AI
to
identify
potential
questions
they’ll
face—and
then,
‘scarily,’
heard
those
queries
repeated
from
the
bench.”
Scary?
Nah.
Entirely
predicable?
Yes.
Artificial
intelligence
is
designed
to
crunch
the
data
and
determine
what
is
most
likely
to
happen.
Using
that
to
prepare
for
what
questions
are
likely
to
appear
during
oral
arguments…
actually
makes
a
ton
of
sense.
Maybe
the
frightening
aspect
is
how
predictable
the
justices
truly
are.
The
scariest
thing
about
AI
in
legal
is
the
potential
for
hallucinating,
creating
facts
or
law
out
of
whole
cloth.
But
the
humans
are
already
doing
that!
By
the
time
cases
—
particularly
on
hot-button
issues
—
make
it
to
the
High
Court,
rather
than
solidify
around
the
(capital
T)
Truth,
the
facts
often
morph.
Like
the
school
prayer
coach
case
where
the
coach
in
question
was
never
actually
fired,
yet
references
to
his
being
fired
were
made
15
times
during
oral
arguments.
Almost
like
that
“fact”
was
hallucinated.
AI:
it’s
just
like
us!
Kathryn
Rubino
is
a
Senior
Editor
at
Above
the
Law,
host
of
The
Jabot
podcast,
and
co-host
of
Thinking
Like
A
Lawyer.
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