Thanksgiving, Legal AI the Slope of Enlightenment

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, so first of all Happy Thanksgiving to all of Artificial Lawyer's readers in America! Second point, I was thinking about this important celebration in the US calendar and couldn't help but make some parallels (albeit highly tenuous ones…) with the growth of the legal AI sector. Although Thanksgiving as a celebration has evolved over the course of the last few hundred years, its core message seems to be about how a hearty band of people looking for a better world took a big risk and headed off to into a future that they had taken upon themselves to create. As anyone around the world who remembers the story will recollect, the Pilgrim Fathers, who set off from England in 1620, did not find it easy going. First, although they knew that the shores of where they were headed were already occupied by other people they went anyway – and to put it delicately, that caused a few issues for all involved.