AI Transformation Strategist | Legal Operations Expert | Creator, ARIA Risk Framework™
There is a pattern that shows up in every major technology disruption in legally consequential environments. Speed outpaces governance, adoption races ahead of accountability, and by the time the legal system catches up, the damage is already systemic.
We saw it with MERS and we are watching it happen in real time again with AI.
The Mortgage Electronic Registration System was not a bad idea. In fact, it was a good idea, but it was deployed without the governance infrastructure to support it. The result was a decade of foreclosure litigation, clouded titles, and courts scrambling to apply existing legal frameworks to a system that had been designed to bypass them.
Similarly, AI is following the same pattern: good technology, but the foundations are being built on the same borrowed infrastructure, assumptions, and time.
This white paper examines where the parallel holds, where it breaks down, and what organizations deploying AI in legally sensitive environments need to do before the legal system catches up with them.
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