This October, Stanford Legal Design Lab hosted the first AI + Access to Justice Summit. This invite-only event focused on building a national ecosystem of innovators, regulators, and supporters to guide AI innovation toward closing the justice gap, while also protecting the public.
The Summit’s flow aimed to teach frontline providers, regulators, and philanthropists about current projects, tools, and protocols to develop impactful justice AI. We did this with hands-on trainings on AI tools, platforms, and privacy/efficiency strategies. We layered on tours of what’s happening with legal aid and court help pilots, and what regulators and foundations are seeing with AI activity by lawyers and the public.
We then moved from review and learning to creative work. We workshoped how to launch new individual model & agent pilots, while weaving a coordinated network with shared infrastructure, models, benchmarks, and protocols. We closed the day with discussion about support — how to mobilize the financial resources, interdisciplinary relationships, and affordable technology access.
Our goal was to launch a coordinated, inspired, strategic cohort, working together across the country to set out a common, ambitious vision. We are so thankful that so many speakers, supporters, and participants joined us to launch this network & lay the groundwork for great work yet to come.