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57 Hous. L. Rev. 1083 (2019-2020)
Trial by Siri: AI Comes to the Courtroom

handle is hein.journals/hulr57 and id is 1125 raw text is: LECTURE TRIAL BY SIRI: AI COMES TO THE COURTROOM Hon. Jennifer Walker Elrod* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION .................................. 1084 II. THEME 1: ACCURACY OF AI PROGRAMS AND RELATED PROBLEMS. ....................... ...1086 A. Artificial Intelligence Overview ............. 1086 B. Introduction to AI and Criminal Sentencing Procedure ....................... ...... 1087 C. A Case Study-State v. Loomis ............. 1090 III. THEME 2: EMPATHY AND OTHER HUMAN VARIABLES IN JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING ................... 1094 A. Bridge from Criminal Sentencing AI.................. 1094 B. Bias and Discretion in Judicial Decision-Making ........................ 1095 IV. CONCLUSION .................................... 1098 * Jennifer Walker Elrod serves as a Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, with chambers in Houston, Texas. This Lecture was delivered for the Justice Ruby Kless Sondock Lectureship in Legal Ethics Jurist-In-Residence program at the University of Houston Law Center on February 19, 2019, and has been slightly modified and adapted for this format. She would like to thank her law clerk, Ethan Kerstein, and two of her interns, Jack DiSorbo and Taylor Hood, for their research and editorial assistance. 1083

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