Multidimensionality of Legal Singularity: Parametric Analysis and the Autonomous Levels of AI Legal Reasoning
This work addresses the theoretical problem of defining and analyzing a potential Legal Singularity for legal scholars and AI researchers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing debates without introducing new empirical results.
This paper tackles the conceptualization of a Legal Singularity by proposing to integrate considerations from the broader technological singularity, apply a multidimensional parametric analysis, and align it with autonomous levels of AI legal reasoning, aiming to enrich AI and law discussions.
Legal scholars have in the last several years embarked upon an ongoing discussion and debate over a potential Legal Singularity that might someday occur, involving a variant or law-domain offshoot leveraged from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) realm amid its many decades of deliberations about an overarching and generalized technological singularity (referred to classically as The Singularity). This paper examines the postulated Legal Singularity and proffers that such AI and Law cogitations can be enriched by these three facets addressed herein: (1) dovetail additionally salient considerations of The Singularity into the Legal Singularity, (2) make use of an in-depth and innovative multidimensional parametric analysis of the Legal Singularity as posited in this paper, and (3) align and unify the Legal Singularity with the Levels of Autonomy (LoA) associated with AI Legal Reasoning (AILR) as propounded in this paper.