The future of court cases and the legal system
2024-10-25 20:55:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
I was going through old notes and felt this one was worthy of a blog post. It was birn out of listening to various podcasts covering some of the recent anti-trust hearing in the US, particularly centering around Google. In general I was struck by how complicated these cases were, on many level. The technologies are complicated, the market dynamics are complicated, the company structures are complicated, the existing regulations are complicated.
The description from the journalists of the ridiculousness of it not being possible to show the software, the lawyers having to rely on archaic techniques like screenshots and printouts, really gave the sense that the limits of what the courts would technically be able to handle resonably were not very far away.
This also happened with the backdrop of having been somewhat imersed in the tech from both the crypto / blockchain scene and the AI / LLMs scenes. It’s very clear to me that we are about to enter a step change in the types of advances we are about to see powered by these technologies. I wondered simply, how will the legal system keep up? Is it in danger of falling by the wayside in favour of some form of autonated AI adjudication.
Anyway here were the notes:
How long until court cases that are fully analogue get transformed by AI welding real-time lawyers that can parse, analyse, synthesize and display data on the fly as they take juries through a case? Cyborg legal teams.
How will judges deal with lawyers that try to bambuzel and distort reality at unparalleled levels, from subliminal messaging, and side channel Derren Brown style psyops to uncheckable claims, with insane logic chains that only computers could follow.
How will they analyse software similar in complexity to the online advertizing market but in other domains? How long until they are pissing in the wind?
Will they have the awareness and power to tell us that the legal game is up, that it’s effectively just shadow puppet theatre?