JWI Deputy Director, Garrett Snedeker, and 2023 James Wilson Fellow Jack Kieffaber discuss the impact of impending AI developments on the judiciary.
Kieffaber’s new article “Predictability, AI, and Judicial Futurism: Why Robots Will Run the Law and Textualists Will Like It,” forthcoming in 2025 in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, is a stirring challenge to avowed textualists. In this podcast, Kieffaber shares his predictions about the development of “Judge.AI,” discusses this system’s implications on the popular understanding of textualism, and expounds on the role of normative judgments in textualist inquiry.
Jack Kieffaber graduated from Harvard Law School in 2023, cum laude. He has clerked for Judge Kevin Newsom on the 11th Circuit, and is a current clerk to Judge Carl Nichols for the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
Editor’s Note: This podcast has been edited since its original release on Sept. 26.
