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„Усиленото“ правосъдие: изкуственият интелект и усиленото четене на закона
Augmented Justice: Artificial Intelligence and the Burden of Legal Reading

Author(s): Stoyan Stavru
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Philology, Theory of Literature, Philosophy of Law, Sociology of Law, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Институт за литература - БАН
Keywords: AI; large language models; judges; reading; law

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the effects of the “augmentation” of justice through the introduction of contemporary AI tools intended to assist judges in reading the law, analysing documents, and deciding cases. Emphasis is placed on the potential human unmanageability of “augmented” justice, as well as on the transformations brought about by large language models in the efforts required of legal professionals in their engagement with legal texts. Two models of arbitrary justice are compared through their literary embodiments in Rabelais’ Judge Bridoye (The Third Book) and Aristophanes’ juror Philocleon (The Wasps). The questions raised by these figures are then reconsidered in light of the contemporary role of AI in the creation, reading, and application of legal texts.

  • Issue Year: 69/2026
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 146-164
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Bulgarian
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