ROBO-Judge

[karaj]

I am coming up on my 2nd year as an ALJ, and in light of reading OCALJ's recent memo on the proposed telework restrictions with much chagrin, it occurred to me that there could be another solution for how SSA can eliminate the backlog! It is called ROBO-Judge! This would be a fully robotically engineered ALJ, that could be programmed to take 10, 15, 20 hearings per day!! Robo-Judge could even do hearings on weekends and holidays! Just upload all the medical data into Robo-judge, program it to formulate hypos and to to analyze vocational and medical expert testimony. Program it to apply the Rules and Rulings, and build it to have a built-in printer so that it could spit out decisions in minutes after a hearing! Robo-Judge never sleeps, so it could crank out decisions all night! Program it to listen to testimony and listen for certain keywords. Robo-judge could issue 80, 90 100 cases per month, easy!! We human judges can't possibly do what SSA wants in a 40+ hr. hr. week, but Robo-judge could!!
What do you say, SSA?

[deltajudge]

8-)Nothing new is the same old thing. There has always been a "backlog." At then end of our training in February 1976, a Jewish guy from Brooklyn who became my best friend there, was chosen as valedictorian, he sounded like George Jessel and was hilarious. He roasted all the class members and the administration. "Backlog, seems that has been every other word here in training, jeez, I see'm sending a limo to our house, having made sure we've taken files and our dictaphone home with us so we can dictate decisions at home, and on the way to work, then reverse the procedure when we go back home" He made it funnier, but prescient?