AI & Law: Legal Singularity

Consider the predicted advent of Legal Singularity

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• A notable theory in AI is that someday there will be The Singularity (i.e., AI becomes sentient)
• No one can say for sure that this crossover into sentience will happen, nor when it might
• Some assert that the field of law will have its own AI moment known as the Legal Singularity
• It is useful to consider the ramifications of Legal Singularity to the law, the legal profession, etc.
• A leading and controversial hypothesis is that the law would no longer have any uncertainty

Introduction

Today’s development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly utilizing impressive techniques and technologies that attempt to mimic or simulate the nature of the human brain, incorporating the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) that are typically at the core of Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) efforts. Despite some tremendous strides in crafting AI that appears to have a…