This reads like it's something new, and maybe parts of it are, and probably any implementation will be 'new' in the sense that it uses recent technical innovati

This reads like it's something new, and maybe parts of it are, and probably any implementation will be 'new' in the sense that it uses recent technical innovations; but when I was in law school 10 years ago, I had a professor (with a chair in 'computational law' or something like that) who had been doing such things since the 1980's. Being a software developer in law school, I looked into his field quite a bit (there have been entire conferences on this topic since the 1980's) and there have been a lot of 'research projects' that explored various parts of what it seems this project is proposing; but none of them practical or big enough to make any impact. And, as usual in academia, it then dies off when the funding ends and the next cycle begins. Anyway, I'm interested to see what will come out of this, but I see very little awareness of past work, which might be because they want to make it look more revolutionary than it is; or because they're reinventing the wheel. Time will tell.