Artificial intelligence (AI), as an idea, has captured the legal imagination, with visions of a future populated by machines simulating legal advisers and even judges. While progress is being made in a variety of areas including partial automation of discovery, due diligence, compliance, information retrieval, and drafting functions, the limits are often hard to articulate. What do projected upward curves of superintelligences mean for the future of law and human lawyers? This talk will explain how we can measure progress towards a legal singularity as a shape evolving in three dimensions: (1) availability of useful tools, (2) capability in terms of affordances and limitations of different techniques, and (3) legitimacy and appropriateness. Of these, the third dimension has and will likely continue to present the most significant barrier. This takes us beyond potentially fixable design problems to fundamental questions about the importance of humanity in law … (more, registration)
First posted 2020-10-28 07:18:19
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