AI & Law: Legal Stockpiling

Using AI to generate and stockpile cogent legal arguments

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• Lawyers create legal arguments and must do so with moves and countermoves in mind
• AI-based legal reasoning systems will gradually augment those laborious efforts
• Imagine the AI as a kind-of chess-playing capability though in the realm of legal arguments
• You could potentially have the AI generate a slew of newly minted legal arguments
• If so, should they be made open to all or can you keep them a secret (an ethical dilemma)

Introduction

There is the famous children’s allegory about the little red hen that goes to the trouble to bake bread, doing so all alone, and then must decide whether to share the bread with others that wish to have some of it.

One perspective is that this story illustrates that to the victor, should go the spoils (or, perhaps, alternatively, for those that put in the time and energy, they should bear the fruits of their labors).