Strikingly, we found no legitimacy penalty for AI assistance. Hypotheticals featuring courts guided by computer-generated legal research were viewed as just as legitimate as those relying on human staff. @almeida2808.bsky.social, Daniel Chen, Angela Gitahi.

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

Thanks Paolo! Yeah, skeptical accounts strike me as superficial because they seem to bottom out in an appeal to a brute fact that legislatures will have such-and-such properties or that all legislators will be individually incentivised to converge on some voting rule or other. 🙂

I feel like Lon Fuller would be conflicted...

Nope! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And only the softer kind..

To be fair if a court said this it would be equally bonkers.