While artificial intelligence (AI), in law and beyond, may seem futuristic, the reality is that “it’s everywhere,” explained Larry Bridgesmith, CEO of Legal Alignment and Vanderbilt University adjunct law professor. Yet while he admits lawyers have “mastered the science off semantics,” no one “can define [AI], but everyone is arguing about what it means.”

At the 2016 Legal Hackers Summit in Brooklyn, New York, however, Bridgesmith momentarily set aside that question, instead asking technologists and lawyers to “think creatively” about how AI developments in tech “can be a benefit in the world of legal hacking.”