MedPage Today October 7, 2024
— Answering a jury summons gave me time to think about how artificial intelligence could help us
I spent a great part of this past week ensconced in a waiting room in the New York County Supreme Court building off Foley Square in Manhattan.
Not a place where anyone really wants to spend a lot of time, although I guess a lot of lawyers and judges are there by their own choosing. For us general citizens, the arrival of that thick red-and-black-and-white envelope with the perforated edges that contains our summons to appear as potential jurors arrives every 4 or 5 years, accompanied by a sinking feeling in our stomachs. Sure, you can postpone it a couple of times, but...