THE VICE LIKE GRIP OF AI IN LAW: A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

 

Inspite of the internet being swamped by the lightening damage being caused by rampant use of AI being used in learning and practice of law ,the law milieu is flooded with its endless fascination for AI.The greatest shortcut to mind blowing research and indescribably erudite drafting.

We are like the deer caught in blinding headlights.The mortality rate of credibility in Courts is as much.

 

But we continue regardless.

 

My two cents from a totally management and psychology perspective.

AI may be great for doing laundry and dishes but not doing poetry and law .

 

All those swearing by AI in the spheres like law and other areas involving critical and creative thinking go on to prove Douglas McGregor"s THEORY X of work motivation and my own theory of Maggi solutions - AI is catching on like wildfire specially among law students and newbies ,not because its an omnipotent and omniscient force providing solid solutions in seconds .

 

It is a bushfire because we would do anything to avoid effort and thought.(a takeoff from THEORY X)Inspite of it being demonstrated so many times in so many courts and other places across the globe we are taking as an unqualified manna from heaven.This is blown out of proportion when the fascinating and crisp presentations create wows from our other modest talents on legalese and superficial awareness of law.The mediocre turns genius with a few clicks.

 

Mind you ,this is not the honest and reliable as well as cross verifiable  net search simpliciter-human content created by humans,for humans.This is GENERATIVE AI.It THINKS ,AND CREATES.That is the real danger.

 

To me the concern is more generic- this abandonment of thought and effort may one day convert into incapability of thought and effort.Deepfakes are the best example of truth being declared a lie and vice versa.

 

I very strongly recommend that all should watch a serial on Deepfakes -THE CAPTURE -available on ott AMAZON PRIME.

There is an old saying.will conclude with that: APNI KHWAHISHON PAR KABOO RAKHNA CHAHIYE.NA JAANE VO KAB SACH HO JAYEN.

[''Beware what you wish for.'']

How can we let something created by human mind enslave the human mind?

Creativity in human endeavour ,be it law or poetry, is the very raison d etre of the beauty of human existence.

I guess ,we need to address natural stupidity first and fast before we address artificial intelligence.

बारिश

 चलो आज बारिश को चाय पे बुलाते हैँ।

थक गया हूं थोड़ा,कुछ भीगते गुनगुनाते हैँ।

चलो आज बारिश को चाय पे बुलाते हैँ।

भर गया है मन बहुत, इन्न् भरे आंसुओं को 

उसके पानी में मिलाते हैँ।

चलो आज बारिश को चाय पे बुलाते हैँ।

दिल में जो दर्द है जो गम् है उसको थोड़ा याद करते हैँ 

थोड़ा भुलाते हैँ।

चलो आज .....

अकेले ही अकेले खुद से रूठते हैँ फिर खुद को मनाते हैँ।

चलो आज ....

मोहब्बत से बिछड़ जाने वाले,उस्के आने से लेकर् 

उस्के जाने वाले ,वो नग्मे फिर से गुनगुनाते हैँ।

चलो आज .....

खुद से किये वो  नामुकम्मल् वादे ,

जी भर के एक आख़री बार ज़िंदगी को आगोश में लेने के इरादे 

चलो एक् बार् फिर् खुद को आज़माते हैँ।

चलो आज बारिश को चाय पे बुलाते हैँ।

: अनादि

अलविदा 2025

 बीता साल कुछ ऐसे गुज़ारा मैने।

अल्फाज़ बेच दिये खामोशी खरीद ली।

यूँही निकल पड़े ज़िंदगी से उलझने।

हंसी अपनी बेचकर थोड़ी खुशी खरीद ली।

सुकून देते थे सन्नाट्टे बहुत मुझे।

साथ सबका बेचकर कर तन्हाई खरीद ली।

ON LOVE AND MARRIAGE

 For this post idea I need to be thankful to a young lady who I knew for a short time - exceptionally talented ,very intelligent ,pursuing law - she said while discussing the fate of love-a freewheeling exchange of thoughts-

'' I believe love is marriage''.Also marriage is an absolute inevitability for women specially.Love means nothing if marriage is not its culmination.

That to me is the biggest humbling experience the concept of love must have got- an absolute ego crash!

I did not disclose to her ,I have a blogpost on the same ,nor did I contest the proposition with her.I try not to fight with prejudices.Some lessons are best taught by life.

You are defined by what you stand in line for.

Here is a small uptake (not heavy).

If Hermes and Aphrodite married ,those who attended,do share a copy of the invite.

Marriage is a socio legal sanction for cohabitation.It is not a natural phenomenon.The proposition of the young lady is a conformity,safety and society driven warped myopic world view which is not just subservient but enslaving - an affront to human existence.

The siege of artificial social constructs on our collective psyche is complete.

But maximum jokes are on husbands ,wives and marriage- lesson somewhere.

No quarrel with marriage per se.It has dispensable utility value.Practical and convenient maybe.But its a different topic.

And love has nothing to do with it.There are loveless marriages and loves which never need the marriage prop.

What then is love?In itself an incomplete sentiment -[see https://lnkd.in/dnxBUXKV]

TRUE love is the real deal as I argue in that blog -do spare time and read it if you wish.So love is about-

T -Trust

R- Respect

U-Understanding

E- Empathy

But ,is this it?What about love?- In v brief.

Love is about

perception- mutual world view

vision- what is life all about

values- what we share

dreams- what we want to do

growth -what we want to be

companionship- can we both look at the same sunset for an hour ,enjoying the silence in togetherness?

desire and passion - no chemistry without physics

Love is about inspiring

Love is about enabling.

Love is about empowering.

Its about hand in hand.

Its about head on shoulder.

Its about laughing together.

Its about crying together.

Its about compelling irresistibility tugging at your heart.

It's about longing.

It's about belonging.

It is when you like yourself more when you are with him/her.

Its part of self actualizing: the ultimate purpose.

Its a tribute: to the real story of Hermes and Aphrodite so few know.

You can add on the theme.I can too.

Its this thought you have:'' I want the world to go on because you are in it.''

NOTE : RELATED:

AN URBAN TRAGEDY:

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1476539429754962786/873742419637630192

WHY MARRIAGES DON’T WORK.WON’T WORK

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1476539429754962786/1994538224839672003

RELATIONSHIPS:

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1476539429754962786/845160434906713046

SIEGE MENTALITY AND MENTAL HEALTH

 

              

 

 I.The initial symptoms:

1.’’Work environment is toxic.Management is toxic.’’

2.’’There is no work-life balance.’’

3.’’I am overworked and underpaid.’’

Not suggesting this is fictional.Just overhyped and stressed to a point where your professional life becomes dysfunctional.

II.Perpetrated by socio-professional media platform:

This is typified in social media impotent rage reactions where real and reel mix, and we are a perceived victim of systemic injustices and inequalities.The trouble lies with everyone else ,except me/us(the victims of the system).The mob culture reaction afforded by safety and comfort of anonymity of social media makes us spew venom on all and sundry.Contrarians are trolled and vilified.

III.What is SEIGE MENTALITY ?:

It is a real psychological phenomena requiring intervention.It is group victimstancing. It is a collective state of mind in which a group of people/even individual believe him/her/themselves constantly attacked, oppressed & exploited in the face of the negative intentions of the rest of the world.

We can together identify the why of it.And create curated solutions to discover that every crisis creates an opportunity.

KNOCK THE DOOR

 

I run tax law classes ONLINE and I invariably run a clip of Steve Jobs video where he recounts his experince as a 12 year old picking up the phone and straightaway dialling the number of Bill Hewlett the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard,and he recalls:
''“His number was still in the phone book, and he answered the phone himself,” Jobs recalled.

[Jobs introduced himself]: “Hi, I'm Steve Jobs. I'm 12 years old. I'm a student in high school, and I want to build a frequency counter, and I was wondering if you had any spare parts I could have.”

Hewlett laughed—and then he did something extraordinary. He not only gave Jobs the spare parts but also offered him a summer job at HP, working on the assembly line.
“I was in heaven,” Jobs said.

“Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask,” Jobs said. “And that's what separates sometimes the people that do things from the people that just dream about them.”

Its a huge tragedy.People say they dont ask because seniors dont tell or ridicule.But that should not deter you.Keep on knocking -one day the right door will open-and life will change.
For whatever I am worth,I am also sitting behind one of those doors-three decades of learning and growth in tax law-in career and mind management -to give away-waiting for my kind of learner.Waiting to open that door.Waiting for that knock.

You have the speed.But I know the way.

So don't fear-just ask.Just knock the door.

AI

 

A very thought provoking piece by the writer Ms.Leher Kala on AI

Read :
https://lnkd.in/daShiWc2

Here is my two penny's worth (And I belong to a gen ,which predates even the author by a fair bit..hitting stone age)

Apart from intellectual dishonesty which the young today consider a concept bereft of meaning ,there are other real dangers of AI impact.One is generating the non existent.Recently an IT decision by income tax tribunal contained non existent decisions,presumably generated by chat GPT.Likewise ,it also has two things which i lable as

1.The google bias
2.The algorithm manipulation

Search engines,lead you in direction they are programmed/tweaked to.

AI goes further .It creates alleyways...narrow,
constricted answers which are projected as manna from heaven.It conditions you to suspend effort.Typing replaces vectored thinking.

In my field ,tax law ,requiring exceptionally high analytic ability,comprehension,creation and articulation ,this system supposedly tells you answers to all.And therein lies the danger.I see it all around me already.Such average performers...articulation ability ,critical discussion ability,juris prudential skills ...nearing nil. ...fighting for crumbs...and blaming the system for it.

Its complete suspension of creative thought.
The point of worry is the gay abandon with which the young are running to it.

Like money,AI is a great servant but a bad  master.

Till it disseminates data and information ,great.The moment it dishes knowledge....that's the red flag.It is unable to distinguish between fact and fiction.It has to provide a solution.

The creator is in danger of getting enslaved by the creation.

A definition of AI by an "old fashioned" me:
" AI is merely a combination of bits and bytes created from an infinite data base on pre defined parameters."

Its no genius .

To me the ultimate quote on AI still is this:
“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.”

:Joanna Maciejewska

Note to the" young" turk :

"we may be older son.But we aren't dumb.
You may have the speed.But we know the way."