It's easy to decry cancel culture, but hard to turn it back. And as I explain below, the lessons that members of the AI community have learned in this regard can be generalized to other professional subcultures. To understand the flash point at issue, it's necessary to delve briefly into how AI functions. In many cases, AI algorithms have partly replaced both formal and informal human decision-making systems that pick who gets hired or promoted within organizations. Financial institutions use AI to determine who gets a loan. And some police agencies use AI to anticipate which neighborhoods will be afflicted by crime.

New York, NY - October 18 - Trial lawyer John H. Snyder, counsel for the former Trustees of the Healthcare Industry Trust of New York, which collapsed in 2007 as a result of corporate venality and governmental incompetence (see here), has asked Albany Supreme Court Justice Richard M. Platkin to order the Workers Compensation Board and certain "Ringleaders" of the infamous CRM insurance scam to submit their emails for analysis by Artificial Intelligence. Previously, lawyers for the disgraced CRM Ringleaders Daniel Hickey Jr., Daniel Hickey Sr., Martin Rakoff, and Louis Viglotti argued that discovery would cost $4 million. Snyder has responded with a plan to accomplish discovery at a cost to CRM of $140K, a 96% savings. Snyder's plan involves the use of Artificial Intelligence in lieu of manual review of millions of emails, which is expensive and ineffective. At Snyder's request, Yippy, Inc. has agreed to host the discovery data and provide its world-leading email search functionality for the benefit of the Court, the parties, and the taxpayers, free of charge.