Journal
The email war, and how to end it.
Research on AI-generated correspondence, evidence handling, structured case records, and the path to settlement.
The Economics of the AI Email War
Generative AI makes legalistic correspondence nearly free to produce. Reading, verifying, and answering it still consumes expensive human attention — a new asymmetry in disputes.
“The sender saves minutes. The recipient inherits hours. Structured resolution changes that equation.”
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From AI Workslop to a Usable Case Record
Why another long AI reply is the wrong answer — and how a structured process turns correspondence into facts, evidence, witnesses, and a finite path to resolution.
“Don't reward volume. Build a record both parties can inspect, answer, and close.”
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How Courts Are Coping with a Flood of AI-Generated Lawsuits
Court documents flagged as AI-written rose from 1% in 2023 to 18% in 2026; one defendant sent over 300 AI-generated accusatory emails. The email war, arriving in court.
EU AI Act High-Risk Rules Take Effect August 2
Annex III classifies AI assisting judicial authorities — including arbitration — as high-risk, requiring documented oversight, transparency, and conformity assessments.
AAA Launches Resolution Simulator, Expanding Its AI Arbitrator
A one-party simulator that produces a non-binding AI decision to help parties evaluate a case before formal proceedings. Pre-litigation assessment is becoming a product category.
Robot Arbitrators Spark Conflicts Over AI in Dispute Resolution
Bias, opacity of reasoning, enforceability, and consent. Platforms that can answer 'how exactly did the AI decide this?' will lead; those that can't will face appeals.
AAA Launches AI Arbitrator for Construction Disputes
Documents-only cases resolved 25–35% faster at 30–50% lower cost, with a human arbitrator reviewing every draft award. Institutional-scale proof the model works.
Studies & guidelines
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
The study that named the phenomenon: 41% of workers received AI workslop within a month, each incident taking nearly two hours to untangle — about $186 per employee per month.
Guideline on the Use of AI in Arbitration
The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators' framework: benefits and risks, recommendations for parties and tribunals, and arbitrators' powers over AI use — with a model agreement and sample procedural orders.
Work Trend Index: Breaking Down the Infinite Workday
117 emails and 153 chat messages per worker per day, an interruption every two minutes — the baseline inbox into which AI-generated dispute correspondence now lands.
Guidelines on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Arbitration
The Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center's first-edition best practices: confidentiality, case-by-case disclosure, and the rule that arbitrators may not delegate their mandate to AI.
Editorial note: external sources are linked for context. Figures and claims should be read in light of each source’s methodology and publication date.