AI Flattens the Law

The law provides a wide range of tools that people can use to achieve their desired goals. Prior to the internet, these were gate-kept by lawyers and other legal professionals, because few people had the time or inclination to seek out a legal library and pour thousands of pages of law and court decisions to figure out what legal tools were available and how one might use them in service of one's goals.

The internet put most of this online and made it possible for enthusiastic laymen to hunt through laws in the comfort of their own home. It still took a lot of time and required a lot of background information on how the legal system works, which laws exist and how everything fits together.

AI makes the law even more accessible by reducing the knowledge required and the time it takes to find relevant sections of the law. You can ask a question or state a problem and get a list of tools the law provides for you to solve your problem. Making the law more accessible will make the world a much fairer place.