The Cyborg
Lawyer.
Meditations of an augmented practitioner.
“The machine drafts. The man judges. Confuse the two and you lose both.”
§ Dispatches
From the field
Longer essays on practising law at the seam of humans and intelligent machines.
- Dispatch No. 15 min read
On Bias — Theirs, Ours, and the Mirror We Owe Each Other
The discourse on AI bias has become self-congratulatory. The Stoics had a better instrument for it: prosoche.
Read→ - Dispatch No. 26 min read
On the Gift and the Wrapping
AI has not made legal work cheaper. It has made a certain quality of attention affordable again.
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Book I
Meditations
Short numbered aphorisms on judgment, integrity, and the art of practising with machines.
- I.3 min read
On Judgment and Its Delegation
You may hand the machine your drafting, your searching, your summarizing. Hand it your judgment and you have handed it your office.
Read→ - II.3 min read
The Inner Citadel Has No Firewall
No model can be prompted into integrity. That fortress is built one decision at a time, and you alone hold the keys.
Read→ - III.3 min read
What the Client Is Owed
The client is not owed your keystrokes. The client is owed the truth, arrived at by whatever honest means the age provides.
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§ The Premise
Field notes from a profession in transformation.
An older question is being asked again, in unfamiliar terms. What is it that a practitioner does, exactly, when the drafting is done in a breath and the searching in a whisper?
This site is a slow answer, written one meditation at a time — on augmentation and its limits, on ethics that no model can enforce, on the small quiet acts that remain irreducibly human.
- →For practitioners standing inside the change.
- →For those learning to reason alongside machines.
- →For those who still rely on professionals — and wish to understand what they are relying on.
§ About
Arjun Ahluwalia is a lawyer writing at the intersection of law, artificial intelligence, and ancient philosophy. This site is his creative output — musings, not counsel.
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