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The major difference is that people routinely ship shoddy, broken products in the world of software with few consequences, beyond needing to patch it later. Try the same thing with a court filing and you’re out on your ass.


This was true before AI too.

In practice, lawyers generally don't ever disbarred except if they lie to clients or steal from them.


We're still early in AI.

All of this will sort itself out and eventually bio, legal, software will all just work.

Don't hold onto any single assumption about the world. Things are going to be weird.


Well hang on, "just work" implies an objective standard of correct vs incorrect. No such standard exists. I'm sure that there will be legal AIs that reliably do... something... but the whole point of the legal system is to allow space for humans to argue their case. If an AI "does legal" deterministically, without human intervention, how can it be said to be "working" if its very use defeats the purpose of the system it has learned to navigate so expertly?

That’s utopian thinking unburdened by reality or the need to explain how this will work. I have no interest in that.

We aren’t talking about the new version of SV spiritualism here, we’re talking about systems people actually care about.




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