AI in ADR
AI Mediation for Democratic Deliberation | 17% of Legal Jobs at AI Risk? | Faster Settlement of Healthcare Payor-Provider Disputes
This human-curated, AI-generated newsletter from the AAA-ICDR Institute and AAAiLab keeps you up on AI news over the past week that is relevant to alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
AI in ADR and Legal Services
2025 Future of Dispute Resolution—New York Conference and Hackathon
American Arbitration Association
A two-day event in New York brings together legal and technology professionals to examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping arbitration, mediation, and online dispute resolution. Through interactive sessions and a collaborative hackathon, participants will explore AI’s impact on ethics, process efficiency, and fairness, while developing practical solutions to improve dispute resolution outcomes for clients and institutions.
Can AI Mediation Improve Democratic Deliberation?
Knight First Amendment Institute
MH Tessler, et al.
Artificial intelligence, especially large language model systems like the Habermas Machine, shows promise in mediating democratic deliberation by helping diverse groups efficiently find common ground. Such systems can scale participation, uphold fairness, and potentially improve the quality of group decisions. However, challenges remain around transparency, inclusivity, oversight, and trust.
Access to housing justice: Leveraging AI to solve NYC’s security deposit crisis
Thomson Reuters Institute
Natalie Runyon
Depositron is an AI-driven tool that empowers New York City tenants to reclaim illegally withheld security deposits by guiding them through an accessible, step-by-step process and generating legally robust demand letters. By making legal self-advocacy feasible without a lawyer, Depositron addresses a widespread justice gap, shifts landlord incentives, and collects data for broader policy impact, offering a scalable model for expanding access to justice in other regions.
Modernizing unauthorized practice of law regulations to embrace technology, improve access to justice
National Center for State Courts
TRI/NCSC AI Policy Consortium for Law & Courts
State courts and bar associations are being urged to update regulations around who can deliver legal services, especially as AI tools become vital for consumers navigating the legal system. With some states already exploring reforms or regulatory sandboxes, modernizing these rules is seen as essential for balancing innovation, public protection, and broader access to justice, ensuring that outdated restrictions don’t hinder much-needed legal support.
Around 17% of Legal Jobs At AI Risk – Goldman Sachs
Artificial Lawyer
Recent analysis suggests that while 17% of US legal jobs—approximately 228,000 positions—are potentially susceptible to AI-driven automation, this is a lower risk than earlier projections. However, actual job loss is likely to be much less, as replacing lawyers entirely with AI faces significant practical and trust-related barriers. The legal profession is expected to experience change, but not widespread unemployment due to AI.
The Shape of Justice: How Topological Network Mapping Could Transform Legal Practice
JD Supra
Ralph Losey
An approach called Topological Jurisprudence uses advanced AI, specifically GPT-5, to blend mathematical topology with legal causation analysis. This enables dynamic mapping of fault and responsibility in complex, multi-party disputes—such as autonomous vehicle accidents—by revealing how causes interact and converge over time. The result is clearer, more precise liability allocation, exonerating blameless parties and transforming how evidence is presented and understood in high-tech legal cases.
New Bloomberg Law Report Highlights AI and the Impact on the Legal Industry
PR Newswire / Bloomberg Law
This report examines how artificial intelligence is transforming the legal sector, focusing on generative AI adoption, emerging state regulations, and operational shifts in law firms. The analysis highlights both opportunities—such as increased efficiency—and challenges, including regulatory scrutiny, courtroom complications, and evolving attorney roles. Legal professionals are offered guidance to navigate these rapid changes and maintain compliance as AI’s influence accelerates across the industry.
Generative AI and LLM Developments
Risk, Reward, & the Limits of AI
aditikumar.substack.com
Aditi Kumar
Artificial intelligence excels at optimizing existing processes and minimizing errors, but its fundamentally risk-averse nature limits its ability to drive breakthrough innovation. In India’s fast-moving, resourceful business environment, transformative growth often depends on human judgment, intuition, and the willingness to take bold risks—qualities AI cannot replicate. The most resilient organizations blend AI’s analytical strengths with deliberate, human-led decisions to pursue high-stakes opportunities and ensure long-term success.
AI Is a Mirror in Which We See Our Reflection
charleshughsmith.substack.com
Charles Hugh Smith
Interactions with AI reveal more about human users than about the technology itself, acting as a mirror for our knowledge, emotions, and cultural values. The depth and meaning we extract from AI responses depend on our own experience and needs—whether intellectual, emotional, or social—highlighting that the real insight arises from our interpretations, not from AI’s output. Ultimately, our engagement with AI exposes the strengths and shortcomings of ourselves and our society.
The Quiet Revolution: Offline LLMs and the Future of Private AI
readysaltedcode.substack.com
Genevieve Smith-Nunes
The rise of locally-run language models marks a shift from centralized, cloud-based AI to tools users can control directly on their own devices. This transition enhances privacy, data sovereignty, and educational access, allowing institutions and individuals to use advanced AI without relying on external providers. However, it introduces new challenges around hardware costs, maintenance, and keeping models updated, demanding careful balancing of privacy, cost, scalability, and ethical considerations.
Oracle Deploys OpenAI GPT-5 Across Database and Cloud Applications Portfolio
Oracle
Oracle has integrated OpenAI’s GPT-5 into its databases and SaaS products, allowing businesses to use the new model for coding, automation, and data analysis directly within their workflows. This move enhances process automation, improves insights, and streamlines operations by combining Oracle’s enterprise data strengths with GPT-5’s reasoning and generative capabilities, offering customers scalable, secure, and adaptable AI-powered solutions across various industries.
AI Regulation and Policymaking
Europe can lead the world in legal AI — by out-regulating everyone else
TNW / Deep-Tech
Michael Grupp
European legal tech is thriving amid strict AI regulations, turning compliance challenges into a competitive advantage. Legal AI startups attract significant investment by building tools that meet rigorous privacy and safety standards, making them attractive globally. Rather than stifling innovation, Europe’s regulatory environment fosters resilient, trustworthy legal AI products, positioning the region as a leader in setting global norms—even as the rest of the world hesitates to follow its complex rules.
Michigan bills target AI exploitation with stricter penalties, victim protections
WWMT
Princess Jhané Stepherson
Michigan is set to enact strict new laws targeting the creation and sharing of nonconsensual AI-generated intimate images, responding to rising cases of digital exploitation and extortion. The legislation mandates clear, explicit consent, toughens penalties for offenders, and empowers victims with civil remedies. It also clarifies platform liability and carves out exemptions for legitimate uses, aiming to modernize protections against AI-enabled abuse, especially for vulnerable populations like children.
AI News from Other Fields
AI Tools Cut Disputes and Halve Settlement Times in Value-Based Care
AP News / Black Book
AI-driven tools are rapidly improving payment accuracy and contract management in value-based healthcare, leading to fewer disputes, faster settlements, and better forecasting. Most payors now see AI as essential for fraud detection and proactive payment integrity. However, gaps remain in integrating clinical data, real-time contract transparency, social factors, affordability, and automation. These unmet needs present opportunities for innovation and market disruption as the sector evolves.
How Georgia-Pacific used generative AI and AWS Countdown Premium to improve manufacturing operations KPIs
Amazon Web Services
Georgia-Pacific, facing workforce shifts and safety challenges, collaborated with AWS to integrate generative AI across its manufacturing operations. Leveraging AWS Countdown Premium, the company overcame hurdles in data integration, security, scalability, and cost management. By systematically refining data collection, model deployment, and governance, Georgia-Pacific rapidly deployed AI-powered solutions that reduced waste, improved productivity, and preserved institutional knowledge, offering a roadmap for effective industrial AI transformation.
The AI-Blockchain Revolution Is Here – And It's Changing Everything
theclarityio.substack.com
Artificial intelligence and blockchain are merging to form a new digital ecosystem, enabling predictive security, real-time fraud detection, and self-optimizing networks. This convergence is driving autonomous economic systems, democratizing AI development, and fostering trust without traditional institutions. With mature infrastructure and clearer regulations, organizations that act now gain lasting competitive advantages, as these technologies shift from experimental to essential foundations for future business models and digital economies.
An AI divide is growing in schools. This camp wants to level the playing field
NPR
Lee V. Gaines
Access to artificial intelligence education is uneven across U.S. schools, with wealthier districts offering more opportunities than low-income or rural areas. Programs like Princeton’s AI4All aim to bridge this gap by providing underrepresented students hands-on experience and exposure to AI concepts. Experts warn that without broader inclusion, both the benefits and risks of AI may be unequally distributed, reinforcing existing disparities in education and future tech leadership.
AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
WIRED / Quanta Magazine
Anil Ananthaswamy
Artificial intelligence is increasingly aiding physicists by uncovering hidden patterns in experimental data and suggesting innovative experimental designs, such as new ways to entangle particles. While AI hasn’t yet produced groundbreaking physics discoveries, it has demonstrated the ability to reveal structures and solutions that can inspire human researchers, particularly in complex quantum experiments like entanglement swapping, which are crucial for advancing quantum technology.
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