‘This Essay defends the legitimacy of AI-assisted legal scholarship, using my own article as an example. Like every other tool, AI can be used for good or evil. It is bad when AI enables students to cheat without detection. It is good when it enables lawyers to slash prices for middle-class Americans. We should capture the good, and it is definitely good for society that the cost of excellent legal work has collapsed. I am sympathetic to those whose income is threatened (that’s all of us, eventually), but our fear of change cannot lead us to discard the productivity gains AI enables. The cost is far too high. AI presents the legal profession with an opportunity to dramatically increase access to top-tier representation for deserving Americans—meritorious plaintiffs and meritorious defendants alike—who would otherwise be forced to acquiesce to unjust outcomes for the sake of their pocketbooks. And because AI-fluent law professors can triple or more their productivity, they can maintain their current output while using two-thirds of their current time for things like engaging in more pro bono work, tripling their scholarly contributions, or mending broken relationships. If a person’s work is good for the world, suddenly being able to do it in a fraction of the time can only be a good thing.’
Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7638259
