AI & Law: Legal Reasoning And Human Mind Limits

Are we at human mind limits on the law, and will AI help move us further ahead.

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• The human brain weighs about 3 pounds and presumably is duly constrained in its size
• Some argue that our “minds” have used the entirety of the brain and we are at our limits
• Such an argument was made about the field of mathematics and might apply to the law too
• But efforts to formulate AI-based legal reasoning might take us to the next level
• And AI might advance legal reasoning, even if the human mind remains constrained

Introduction

You come across a pile of rocks. They weigh about twenty pounds. A satchel that you are carrying can only accommodate ten pounds of rocks. You are having a bad day and face a quite puzzling quandary about what to do. As the judicious old saying goes, you cannot put twenty pounds of rocks into a ten-pound sack.

That darned satchel is just not big enough to handle the chore at hand.