Justin Curl (Harvard) will speak on different conceptions of advanced AI development and their implications for legal services and legal design. Mr. Curl's talk introduces the view that AI is a "normal technology" and applies it to the domain of law, discussing three bottlenecks that will hinder advanced AI capabilities from making legal services more widespread and accessible. The talk then offers a framework for understanding how law is shaping the development and societal impacts of AI, and considers what policy prescriptions might follow from the AI as a Normal Technology view as compared to views that predict AI will be more radically transformative, destabilizing, or dangerous.
There is no required reading, but it will be useful to take a look at this piece on the diffusion of AI capabilities and the availability of legal services; this piece on designing AI policy; this piece introducing and defending the AI as Normal Technology view; and this piece criticizing it.
The session is open to the broader Yale community but those not at YLS should register beforehand.
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Associate Professor of Law Ketan Ramakrishnan and Visiting Lecturer on Law Dean Ball