AIs Hacking the Law

Summary

The author, citing a 2021 essay and the 2022 book A Hacker's Mind, argues that AI systems can find vulnerabilities and exploits in legal systems much as they do in software. The source reports that the authors used LLMs to identify a substantial number of previously unrecorded vulnerabilities in the German legal system, sharing only those whose exploitation would not cause serious harm. They warn that cheap legal reasoning could jeopardize current legal systems, and that lawmakers would need to harden legislation, possibly using advanced AI themselves.