AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper

Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services

This essay was published in Lawfare’s Research Paper Series. The official version that should be cited is linked here. The essay is co-authored with Justin Curl, a third-year at Harvard Law School. Previously, he was a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University and earned a degree in Computer Science from Princeton, where we first collaborated. You can find more of his writing on AI and the law here. Many AI leaders believe the technology will transform knowledge work. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts AI systems that are “smarter than humans by 2030,”1 while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei…

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