Extract from Olga V. Mack’s article, “AI Will Expose How Little Legal Judgment Companies Have Made Explicit.”
Humans have been quietly compensating for this gap for years. AI will make it visible.
Ask a company what contract terms it accepts, and you may receive a playbook.
Ask why it accepts those terms, when it makes exceptions, how different provisions interact, and what would change the decision, and the answers often become less precise.
Much of an organization’s legal judgment has never been fully articulated. It lives in the heads of experienced lawyers who have learned, over hundreds of matters, what the company will accept, what deserves concern, and when an ordinary issue has become unusual.
