I think it was in 2024 that I first encountered someone asking AI to revise contract language to reflect the guidelines in A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. (See this blog post.) Well, I’m hearing that increasingly often. Three examples: My first example is the screenshot below of a March 2026 exchange of comments on LinkedIn. (Hi Joseph!) It … Read More
In an exchange of messages today with a contact, they signed off with this: … and thinking is not popular these days. That sounds pretty terrible. But it might play out in ways that aren’t too terrible, at least when it comes to contract drafting. We apply our thinking to what we enjoy. Or what we have to do. So … Read More
[Revised on 11 September 2025 to change the title and the text. The original title was If AI Gets One Thing Wrong, It Might Get Other Stuff Wrong.] Recently I saw on LinkedIn, in this post by Kara Dowdall, the following assessment of a contract: This assessment was generated by artificial intelligence. Or more specifically, by Claude, from Anthropic. I … Read More
At the recent ACC annual meeting, Adrian Goss—whom I first met a dozen years ago on a trip to Australia—told me he had uploaded some miscellaneous-provisions stuff from Practical Law and asked ChatGPT to redraft it so it complies with the guidelines in A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting. In this 2023 blog post, I discuss the notion of … Read More
I’ve written previously about conceptual shortcomings in relying on generative artificial intelligence to mark changes in the other side’s draft, commonly known as “redlining” (see this blog post and this blog post). Now, let’s look at a more basic problem: erratic drafting choices. This post is about one example of that. Recently the contract-lifecycle-management vendor Agiloft released (to quote this … Read More
