Algorithmic Bias and Cognitive Deception in Legal Tech
Thinking Clearly and Speaking Credibly When Machines Shape the Case
For UK lawyers, law students and paralegals: learn how AI discovery tools, sentencing algorithms and predictive text trigger cognitive shortcuts, keep rigorous epistemic hygiene, and explain automated findings clearly in meetings, client meetings, speeches and presentations
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Course Modules
Module 1: Fluency, Authority and the Machine
3 lessons
How AI discovery tools, predictive text and machine-generated case summaries trigger cognitive shortcuts, and why confident machine prose persuades speakers and listeners alike.
Module 2: Epistemic Hygiene in Document Review
3 lessons
Practical habits of rigorous thinking when reviewing automated document analysis and machine-generated case law before speaking to anyone about it.
Module 3: Explaining Algorithms to Clients and Colleagues
3 lessons
The public speaking fundamentals of client meetings and team meetings when the subject is an automated tool, its findings and its limits.
Module 4: Advocacy and Presentation in the Age of Algorithms
3 lessons
Speeches, presentations and courtroom advocacy that involve algorithmic evidence such as automated sentencing tools, and keeping a credible human voice.