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AI Courts and the Risk of Efficient Stagnation
AI may make courts faster and more consistent. But if judicial AI is trained to preserve the past, efficiency could hard-code old assumptions into future decisions.
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AI may make courts faster and more consistent. But if judicial AI is trained to preserve the past, efficiency could hard-code old assumptions into future decisions.

Schema-first extraction was opinion encoded as infrastructure. The engineering that matters now is fidelity: guaranteeing the model sees the full record, structured so it can reason through it.

The 8am 2026 report finds 69% of legal professionals now use AI — but only 34% of firms have formal adoption. The governance gap is widening.