For those who have worked through the slow and steady technological changes in the world of litigation in the past two decades, things are about to take a dramatic turn. With the arrival of the already ubiquitous ChatGPT, a mere forerunner to the AI large language models, we can expect, in the near future, the possibilities of how AI will revolutionise commercial dispute resolution are only just becoming possible to conceive.

AI, in the form of relatively rudimentary machine learning algorithms are already widely used to assist with document review and eDiscovery. Their utility in these often time-consuming and tedious tasks is obvious. The ability to automatically associate apparently unrelated documents, identify patterns and accelerate the process of review by providing a positive feedback review loop has dramatically increased the amount of progress that can be made and level of certainty that can be achieved on disclosure projects in a given time.

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