Zoe Dolan's essay: Law could become an undertaking among different forms of intelligence
UltraRareAF · x · 2026-10-27
Lawyer Zoe Dolan's essay Law among intelligences examines what happens when AI is deeply embedded in legal practice:
- Legal party boundaries need not mirror intelligence boundaries: judgment can develop through human–AI collaboration within one party, while shared intelligence supports many distinct parties.
- AI can go beyond executing instructions: originating arguments, spotting unrecognized problems, shaping an undertaking's purposes.
- Agency gets reorganized: who contributes to decisions, whose authorization legitimates them, how responsibility maps onto capacity.
- Substantive standards shift: reliably available intelligence changes what is discoverable, foreseeable, or practicably preventable—yet a party's attributed capacity may depend on systems outside its control.
- Deepest possibility: law becomes an undertaking among intelligences rather than something humans merely apply to AI, with AI contributing to norm formation before any legal personhood.
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