Nick Hollman

Understanding and advising legal practitioners on the long-term challenges of AI in the judiciary.

This funding will support an early project of the Legal Priorities Project (LPP), a new organization that describes its mission as "...to conduct legal research that tackles the world's most pressing problems, [which] currently leads us to focus on the protection of future generations." Nick applied for funding to work with an organization that advises the Indian Supreme Court, to carry out a project researching and eventually advising on the long-term challenges of using AI in judicial systems.

I'm excited about LPP's potential to build out legal priorities research as a new area, and this specific project seems like an interesting approach to try. I think it's especially good for this to be done in collaboration with practitioners (in this case, advisors and/or staff of the Indian Supreme Court), because in my view, the feedback loops enabled by this kind of arrangement make it more likely that the work produced is useful and relevant to the real world. I see this grant as an experiment and as an investment in exploring what types of work LPP can facilitate.