A colleague alerted me to the existence of this project, which had flown under my radar. The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) has used "a commercially available Large Language Model (LLM)" to generate summaries of primary case law, and legislative documents for Alberta, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, and Saskatchewan.
It's the summaries of legislative documents that excites me. Legalese doesn't seem very approachable to the layperson, yet some of this stuff can be pretty important to at least know about. Here's the Alberta Libraries Act: https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/laws/stat/rsa-2000-c-l-11/latest/rsa-2000-c-l-11.html As soon as I start scrolling I want to quit. But now I can click on the AI analysis tab and have a summary that even I can understand! Yeah, if it turns out to be something that should involve a lawyer, that's not going to change, but at least this summary gives me a decent chance of understanding what's going on with any given legislative document.
