[content warning: plug for paywalled academic article I wrote]. If the (a bit overheated) claims in this article are true, it probably isn't good for social eq

[content warning: plug for paywalled academic article I wrote]. If the (a bit overheated) claims in this article are true, it probably isn't good for social equality---at least, not in the absence of a sustained effort to build what in effect are social ventures (memo to YC...) around legal AI. Just building machine learning into existing legal workflows will probably reduce the legal costs for the rich and powerful without trickling down to the poor, who often face social in addition to financial barriers to legal services. Article I wrote making this argument at some length: https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/utlj.2017-0047 https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/utlj.2017-0047