Siegler: Automated Legal Tech Is Flooding Courts and Will Bog Down the System
M.G. Siegler · Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake · Jul 6, 2026 · at 55:44
Investor and writer MG Siegler discusses the unintended second-order consequences of deploying automated technology across various industries, including the legal system.
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“So many courts now are getting flooded with you know, Lawsuits basically that they weren't previously because of little technicalities that these services are able to offer up as like, well, can you technically sue for that? Yeah, you can. Here's, here's what you would say. And here's the way to file your lawsuit. And it's like, again, would you begrudge anyone who's filing a lawsuit that they previously wouldn't have because they didn't realize it? No, but there's second order effects of it. And it's going to bog down the court system and maybe the court can't hear like a very important case, you know, in some other angle that they would have Heard it previously because they can't scale as they have.”
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