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Reasoning outsourced: the limits of artificial intelligence in the law

Pakistan Published 14 November 2026, 21:42 · archived 14 Nov 2026

Welcome to the era of reasoning outsourced to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Outsourcing reasoning to AI is just a change of technique. It leaves the lawyer’s obligations exactly where they were, and it makes those obligations easier to breach. The claim that AI will replace lawyers is half right. It will dismantle the junior law associate as a unit of cheap, typed drafting output, which is how many chambers still price juniors. It will not remove the need for a seasoned lawyer – an accountable human between the model and the court file, and Pakistani law provides no mechanism to make a machine...

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