Letters
Apr. 20, 2026
Does the future of judging look like Billings Learned Hand or Learned Hand-AI?
AI may improve judicial efficiency, but it cannot replace the inherently human judgment, reasoning and legitimacy of written judicial decision-making.
Paso Robles Branch
Michael C. Kelley
Judge
Civil/Probate/Appellate
Yale Law School, 1979
In a recent letter to the editor, "The horror isn't AI, it's what we're doing without it," Bridget Mary McCormack, a retired justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and currently president and CEO of the American Arbitration Association, criticized a column by my friend Justice Arthur Gilbert. (Daily Journal, April 13, 2026.) Arthur's column expressed concern about the use of a...
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