Laying Down The AI Law

About this episode

This episode explores the challenges of integrating AI into high-stakes environments like courtrooms, focusing on the importance of trust in technology.

The advent of AI is either exhilarating or terrifying, depending on the day and maybe your last interaction with Siri. That’s because the stakes of the technology, at least as it’s promoted by its developers, is really really high. If what they say about it is true, it could upend human work as we know it. No wonder, then, that a crisis of trust has accompanied its rapid rise.  What happens when you take AI into rooms where the stakes are high and the tolerance for error is low? Rooms like courtrooms. Or patrol cars. My guests on this edition of Out to Lunch Acadiana are both building AI products for exactly those environments. And what they've each discovered is that the technology is almost never the hardest part. The hardest part is trust. Grant Schexnailder grew up in Lafayette — out near Milton — and comes from a family of entrepreneurs. His mom runs Cheers Cheerleading Academy. Both of his grandfathers ran their own businesses. Grant went to LSU for finance, then to Southern University for law school — a calculated decision, he'll tell you, more than a calling.  By day, Grant defends municipalities and government agencies against…

People in this episode

Guest: Grant Schexnailder

Topics covered

• AI
• law
• trust
• technology
• courtrooms

Keywords

• jury selection
• litigation
• municipalities
• government agencies

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Empath, ChatGPT

Places: Lafayette, Milton, St. Martin Parish, St. Martinville, Duson, Wisconsin, Texas

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