AI could break legal systems by finding previously hidden loopholes
Stanford legal scholar Felix Ringe warns that advances in AI make it feasible for LLMs to discover exploitable inconsistencies and loopholes in legal code similar to how they identify software vulnerabilities. This poses risks of overwhelming courts' ability to manage such discovered exploits through traditional statutory interpretation. The concept draws on decades of legal scholarship treating law as code vulnerable to misuse.
Key points
- LLMs could identify legal vulnerabilities at scale, overwhelming courts' traditional remedies
- Legal systems encode social order in natural language, mirroring computer code's vulnerability to exploitation
- Stanford legal scholar Felix Ringe frames legal zero-days as an emerging AI risk
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