Brandon Waldon

@bwal.bsky.social

Linguistics & Philosophy @ University of South Carolina bwaldon.github.io

Prior studies have found that people perceive AI-led legal processes as less fair than human-led ones. This is the legal "human-AI fairness gap." New studies (N = 7,651) discover that this gap is mitigated with even minimal human involvement in the AI process. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Mitigating the Judicial Human-AI Fairness Gap

When algorithms make legal decisions, people perceive the process as less fair than when humans do — a phenomenon known as the judicial human-AI fairness gap. W

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Originalist debates often draw on historical analysis. Yet in statutory cases, textualist decisions--and critiques of them--rarely draw on linguistics. Linguistics can and should inform debates about textualism: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (with @bwal.bsky.social)

Linguistics and Textualism

Should linguistics inform textualism? When legal theories make claims about another discipline’s subject, that discipline is often illuminating: History impacts

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