Quinten Steenhuis

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"Legal rebel", Lawyer, educator, software developer and agent for social change @suffolklitlab

I use https://docassemble.org to build software tools that help self-represented people navigate the court and solve legal problems, as well as building software automation tools for law firms and businesses.

Author of https://gbls.org/MADE and https://madeuptocode.org

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#AccessToJustice #Housing #HousingIsAHumanRight #LegalTech #Baking #Bicycling #Scrabble

GitHubhttps://github.com/nonprofittechy
Bloghttps://nonprofittechy.com
Consultinghttps://lemmalegal.com
BlueSkyhttps://bsky.app/profile/qsteenhuis.bsky.social
I put together my thoughts on why nonprofits should get out of the middle of the road and embrace AI. We're at a crossroads as a profession, with many folks split. I argue that it is immoral to keep waiting and suggest a safety test for real-world use cases. https://suffolklitlab.org/no-devil-at-this-crossroads-the-moral-case-for-using-ai-to-help-close-the-access-to-justice-gap/
No devil at this crossroads: the moral case for using AI to help close the access to justice gap — Suffolk LIT Lab

I arrive at this conclusion with my eyes open: it is morally wrong to withhold carefully tested AI tools from unrepresented litigants when the alternative is ChatGPT or nothing at all. In this essay, I explore the positive case for AI and why I reject the most common criticisms, and propose a "crossroads test" to evaluate the safety of different AI use cases.

Suffolk LIT Lab
I feel pretty lucky to work with @Colarusso and @qsteenhuis—and to hang out with them in Boston for the first time! #LITCon2024 #eclipse @SuffolkLITLab

@Lexpedite @Colarusso @brycew

And here are the rest of the papers! Jurix is in a public access journal. I didn't realize that! https://ebooks.iospress.nl/ISBN/978-1-64368-473-4

IOS Press Ebooks - Legal Knowledge and Information Systems - JURIX 2023: The Thirty-sixth Annual Conference, Maastricht, the Netherlands, 18–20 December 2023

Technological advances related to legal information, knowledge representation, engineering, and processing have aroused growing interest within the research community and the legal industry in recent years. These advances relate to areas such as comp...

@Lexpedite @Colarusso @brycew Happy to share! The workshop papers are all online now: https://justiceinnovation.law.stanford.edu/jurix-workshop/
JURIX Workshop on AI and Access to Justice

At the December 2023 JURIX conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, our team at Legal Design Lab will co-lead an academic workshop on AI and Access to Justice. We encourage academics,…

Justice Innovation

A quick update: I'm now a freelance docassemble and full stack developer! I'm truly thankful for my time at @SuffolkLITLab, specifically to @Colarusso and @qsteenhuis, from whom I've learned a ton over the past 3 years about access to justice.

I'll be working w/ a few orgs on new legal tech projects:

* helping Michigan Legal Help write docassemble guided forms
* working with legal tech clients with Lemma Legal
* continuing to push improve E-filing capabilities with LIT Lab

Fun fact: two @SuffolkLITLab staff are nominated for this year's American Legal Technology Awards, @qsteenhuis and myself. It's an honor, and also a reminder of what a nice community we've built around the Lab. Congrats Quinten!

Here's a write up from Bob Ambrogi: https://www.lawnext.com/2023/09/finalists-named-for-american-legal-technology-awards-winners-to-be-named-at-oct-8-event.html

Finalists Named for American Legal Technology Awards; Winners to be Named At Oct. 8 Event

Finalists have been named for the 2023 American Legal Technology Awards, which honor exceptional achievement in various aspects of legal technology. Winners will be announced at a gala dinner at Gaylo...

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@deaddrop fair enough. So far, I've not required my students to pay for any materials for my classes. Our readings are all available on the web for free. At $20/month for GPT+, that would be the equivalent of a decently expensive textbook.

Those of you have taught classes that incorporate large language models, how do you get your students access, given that GPT-4 is behind a paywall?

I've thought about:

1. setting up a playground with my API key
2. just using GPT-3 and hoping it's not busy when students access it
3. Directing students to Bing Chat
4. Asking students to get a subscription

Last semester I just did demos from my own account but I think I want an actual module this year.

#LegalTech #teaching #academia