Episode 2 | Legal Reasoning at Machine Speed: AI Legal Agents in Critical Decision-Making @CISACatStanford

Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

In this episode of the Future of Decision-Making, Dr. Lena Trabucco, expert in lethal autonomous weapons and international humanitarian law, and Dr. Casey Husser, anesthesiologist and informatics expert join host Brad Boyd to examine how AI-enabled legal agents can inform critical decisions in domains where time pressure and legal obligation collide.
In warfare, commanders must make targeting and operational decisions under intense pressure while satisfying the requirements of international humanitarian law. In medicine, clinicians face urgent treatment choices bounded by consent, liability, and regulatory frameworks. In both domains, the deliberative legal review that institutions were built around is being compressed—and AI-enabled legal agents offer one possible answer: embedding legal reasoning directly into the decision cycle.

Episode 2 | Legal Reasoning at Machine Speed: AI Legal Agents in Critical Decision-Making

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