When AI Joins the Table: Empathy, Ethics, and the Future of Mediation
SESSION 1
Friday, February 26 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Azalea V & VI
Session Description:
As AI tools reshape how parties prepare for and engage in dispute resolution, mediators face new ethical and practical challenges: AI-generated positions, algorithmically optimized negotiation strategies, and clients who arrive with chatbot-advised anchors. This session explores what mediators must do differently in an AI-influenced practice. Attendees will leave with a framework for empathic engagement that AI cannot replicate, grounded in both ethical obligation and practical skill.

1.0 continuing education credit hour(s), of which 0.50 hour(s) will apply to ethics credit.