>"some may wonder whether judges are about to become obsolete. I am sure we are not — but equally confident that technological changes will continue to transform our work."<p>><i>"For those that cannot afford a lawyer, AI can help."</i><p>>"I predict that judicial work — particularly at the trial level — will be significantly affected by AI."<p>>"The legal profession is, in general, notoriously averse to change."<p>—SCOT.US Chief Justice Roberts, "2023 Year-End Report..."<p>----<p>I think the greatest enabler of layperson access to the judicial systems will lie in generative AI's abilities to weed through all the esotericisms [bullshit] of "Legal English" — much like www.tosdr.org already does for interpretting overly-complicated Terms of Service [Didn't Read].<p>When you start peeling back the walled garden of law, you almost immediately find bulldogs attempting to bully you into submission against your "wrongthink" [this was how I was myself treated by a lawyerbro, imploring him to "look in to this GPT thing" back in Jan.2023"].<p>I'm extremely excited to see all their legal brilliance/gibberish reduced to easily-accessible, FAIR, AI-interpretted judicial motions/rulings.