Could Legal AI save the Internet? By Rawdon Crozier

Week 4 of KBG Chambers’ Civil Teams Blog – ‘Civil Matters’

Could Legal AI save the Internet? By Rawdon Crozier

As the UK gears up to ban 16-year olds from social media, a lot of the wider concerns about the social impact of our wider digital cultural remain unaddressed. Not only are there the long term-concerns about bots promoting extremist views and vulnerable people having harmful content promoted to them by little-understood algorithms, there has been the recent BBC report that anti-immigration AI videos have been faked by overseas content-creators – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpyn30dp3o.

AI played an important part in the latter story and is itself the subject of multiple concerns  (see, for example https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002wwqx): will it stir up social divisions? Will it decimate the very professional classes to whom it is most marketed and so destroy itself and the rest of us along with it?

Rawdon Crozier decided to put some small part of that to the test. Since destabilising society seemed somewhat irresponsible, Rawdon settled for seeing how much a legal AI (in this instance Vlex’s Vincent) might be able to do with only modest legal input but in the service of a nobler cause.

Might legal AI, for example, be able to “fix the Internet”?

Apparently, it might.

Scarily for those who draft legislation, Vincent was not only able to get to grips with the Human Rights aspects of regulation, it was also able to come up with a whole 7-Part draft Social Media Provenance and Transparency Bill. For the optional Part VII, Recommender Systems, it drafted provisions that  would materially add to the protections afforded by the existing Online Safety Act 2023 and also identified the consequential amendments that would be required in that act.

You can read Rawdon’s conversation with Vincent and the two parts of the draft bill here and start to make your own mind up about the pros and cons of legal AIs.

Other than substituting internal Vlex links for publicly available links on GOV.UK for legislation and BAILII for case reports, none of the AI generated documents has been altered.

POSTSCRIPT This post was written on the 29 October and, in the event, has coincided with the publication of the final report ‘The Use of AI for Preparing Court Documents’. The announcement can be found here: https://www.judiciary.uk/related-offices-and-bodies/advisory-bodies/cjc/current-work/use-of-ai-in-preparing-court-documents/ and the full report here: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Use-of-AI-for-the-Preparation-of-Court-Documents-Final-Report.pdf.