Yonathan Arbel @arbel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The showdown: Lawyers vs. LLMs on contract gap filling 141
Yonathan Arbel @arbel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026More a-corps news, from Argentina "Yonathan Arbel, a professor who researches AI at the University of Alabama's law school, said Argentina could gain a “huge competitive advantage” . . . 110
Yonathan Arbel @arbel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026So how do we deal with agents? The fix won't be technical. Despite what you've heard, this isn't a software problem, it's a governance problem. As Holmes explained over a century ago, we really need a bad man/agent theory of the law We need to punish someone, right? But who? 110
Yonathan Arbel @arbel.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Milei is now pitching "a-corps"! A quick explainer: AI agents are quietly starting to run (in) the economy. And like your mom warned about kids running w/ scissors: it's all fun and games until someone runs a billion-dollar scam on the elderly. 100
Yonathan Arbel @arbel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026In How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents, with @psalib and philosopher Simon Goldstein, we apply an old legal dilemma to a new problem and offer a time-tested solution. Paper (just posted): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf m?abstract_id=6273198 101
Yonathan Arbel @arbel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Findings: humans judge harshly people who didn't take the socially common level of precautions, even though textbook says that shouldn't matter. Textbook does say they should care about costs, but humans don't care much. LLM repeat this exact pattern in RCTs. (but not all) 100
Yonathan Arbel @arbel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025To test whether LLMs may have picked up the deeper structure of reasonableness judgment (not just parroting), I offer a new methodology: Silicon RCTs (S-RCTs). Randomize a relevant fact, run session-isolated “participants,” & compare LLM deltas to human deltas. 100
Yonathan Arbel @arbel.bsky.social · 10/04/2025I ended up using Walt. I attach the semester plan. I was underwhelmed but it was serviceable 100
