# How AI-Adjudication Disrupts Law’s Ability to Facilitate Moral Perceptual Progress

## TL;DR

This paper explores how artificial legal intelligence might hinder law's role in advancing moral understanding and perception.

## Contribution

The novel contribution is analyzing ALI's impact on moral perceptual progress through a philosophical legal lens.

## Key findings

- ALI threatens to disrupt law's role in facilitating moral perceptual progress.
- The paper identifies potential positive uses of ALI for moral perceptual processes.
- Moral perceptual progress is shown to be central to law's origin and function.

## Abstract

Several philosophers of law have been drawing attention to the role of moral perception in modern legal practices. While perception-oriented approaches to law represent a minority view, I show that they offer a fruitful perspective on what is at stake with the emergence of Artificial Legal Intelligence (ALI). Specifically, I argue that facilitating moral perceptual progress is one of modern law’s vital aspirations, baked into its origin story as well as some of its content and processes. I argue that this aspiration threatens to be disrupted by ALI, which increasingly permeates the space of modern law. While my argument lands on a predominantly pessimistic assessment of ALI developments, I will conclude by speculating about potential positive ways in which ALI technologies may also support moral perceptual process.