arbitration awards

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has made urgent a question that would have seemed absurd to the drafters of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA): whether algorithms might generate binding arbitral awards without human involvement. This two-part article concludes that, under the FAA as currently written, such awards cannot be enforced. Yet this article does not end with a negative prognosis for AI’s place in arbitration. Instead, it makes suggestions for legislative reform …

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