What Legal Publishers Can Learn from a White House Speechwriter’s Approach to AI
I share the perspective of Elise Jordan—journalist, political analyst, and communications strategist with a background that includes The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and the White House—on why AI is already making, and will continue to make, a positive impact on legal publishers, including legal bloggers.
Speaking at the Journalism Advocacy and Innovation symposium at the University of Mississippi, Jordan, as reported by The Mississippian’s Clay Hale, said:
I think AI is going to completely transform the world — the newsroom included. So much of journalism is rejecting (AI), and you’ve got to learn how to work with it, how to integrate it.
The job skill that’s going to be most valued in the AI economy is the ability to ask good questions. We don’t know what it’s going to look like, but critical thinking and a liberal arts education are going to really help you.”
Accuracy remains critical, and possible, with AI, per Jordan.
Working as a speech writer in the White House she learned the importance of collecting and relaying accurate information of a professional.
(L)earning how those speeches were fact-checked with precision, care and accuracy — that’s something that’s really stuck with me and has been important for my entire career.
It’s also possible just as the formation of the Internet took Jordan, from Mississippi, a to new world, AI can do the same for legal publishers.
When I was young as a teenager, we first got the internet, which really started to open up the world a little bit because information was more easily accessible, and I was dying to leave. I was dying to go to different places, to travel, to experience another way of life.
Rather than writing for you, AI assists legal publishers by sparking new ideas, supporting learning, and offering better ways to connect with their audience.