A superb article written by Taffy Brodesser-Akner in the New York Times Magazine on 31 May 2026 about her interview with Tillie Norwood, Actress. It tells us that the technology is not only present, but improving by the day. For how long will we be able to say, 'She's just a computer'? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/magazine/ai-actress-tilly-norwood.html
Thank you for letting me have these updates. They are all very interesting.
The Tilly Sutton Chambers seem almost too good to be true. However, in the speech upload you kindly included there's mention of 'AI speeds up' which I have certainly found to be the opposite of my AI searches (which are mentioned elsewhere). In my own 'searches' I have switched off all AI so as not to have my time wasted going down stupid rabbit holes.
One reservation I have: Tilly Sutton Chambers seems to be proved to be wonderful. But, how do we know any other such 'Chambers' will be reliable?
We are yet to see the statistics regarding AI v lawyer, but if other fields of endeavour are replicated here, AI is already out-performing the human, just as the Tillie Sutton bot is outstripping the competent lawyer. We cannot approach the subject on the basis that human advisers are more reliable currently, and therefore more likely to be right. Nor can we dismiss AI on the fact that it has recently hallucinated and produced poor outcomes. AI is doubling every five to seven months. Its performance is being enhanced daily. That said, whereas a human may tease out the issue for consideration, LLMs don't yet have this capacity. It means that the question or problem to be solved needs to be carefully, accurately and fully articulated to obtain the optimal output. Perhaps this is where lawyers may continue to have a role - to better manage the input and to interrogate the output of AI. But that AI will not be the first 'go-to' is inconceivable, for a quick dynamic purposeful search with AI will take most lawyers half the way in a fraction of time.
Thank you for this engaging update on the Tillie Sutton Chambers.
As you have shown, this scenario is developing so swiftly that my mind is almost overwhelmed. Here you are revealing what can, and is, taking place in the legal world. This is happening with the due oversight of careful and deliberate caretakers of this system. You and your colleague are directly interacting with AI in real life with immediate resolutions offered that would have seemed unlikely in the recent past. Which reveals the astronomical pace of these upgrades. We are truly living in the future already.
Gayle, again a greatly welcomed comment. Interestingly, Alistair sent me New York Times Magazine link to an article published today by Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Tillie Norwood, actor https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/magazine/ai-actress-tilly-norwood.html. Alistair's link allowed me behind NYT paywall. You may not be so lucky, but if you can access it, the article is worth reading. The more I research and write about Tillie Sutton and the potential of AI legal bots, the more susceptible I sense the law is to an AI takeover. Lord Justice Briggs gets close in his recent speech here https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/speech_lord_briggs_20052026_de46afe657.pdf
A superb article written by Taffy Brodesser-Akner in the New York Times Magazine on 31 May 2026 about her interview with Tillie Norwood, Actress. It tells us that the technology is not only present, but improving by the day. For how long will we be able to say, 'She's just a computer'? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/magazine/ai-actress-tilly-norwood.html
Thank you for letting me have these updates. They are all very interesting.
The Tilly Sutton Chambers seem almost too good to be true. However, in the speech upload you kindly included there's mention of 'AI speeds up' which I have certainly found to be the opposite of my AI searches (which are mentioned elsewhere). In my own 'searches' I have switched off all AI so as not to have my time wasted going down stupid rabbit holes.
One reservation I have: Tilly Sutton Chambers seems to be proved to be wonderful. But, how do we know any other such 'Chambers' will be reliable?
We are yet to see the statistics regarding AI v lawyer, but if other fields of endeavour are replicated here, AI is already out-performing the human, just as the Tillie Sutton bot is outstripping the competent lawyer. We cannot approach the subject on the basis that human advisers are more reliable currently, and therefore more likely to be right. Nor can we dismiss AI on the fact that it has recently hallucinated and produced poor outcomes. AI is doubling every five to seven months. Its performance is being enhanced daily. That said, whereas a human may tease out the issue for consideration, LLMs don't yet have this capacity. It means that the question or problem to be solved needs to be carefully, accurately and fully articulated to obtain the optimal output. Perhaps this is where lawyers may continue to have a role - to better manage the input and to interrogate the output of AI. But that AI will not be the first 'go-to' is inconceivable, for a quick dynamic purposeful search with AI will take most lawyers half the way in a fraction of time.
AI Agent capability
https://youtu.be/43xzqv9Tw-Q?si=nojaagnf-ep3nZzt
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-capabilities-doubling-every-5-months-heres-what-means-titus-blair-xeyuc/
Thank you for this engaging update on the Tillie Sutton Chambers.
As you have shown, this scenario is developing so swiftly that my mind is almost overwhelmed. Here you are revealing what can, and is, taking place in the legal world. This is happening with the due oversight of careful and deliberate caretakers of this system. You and your colleague are directly interacting with AI in real life with immediate resolutions offered that would have seemed unlikely in the recent past. Which reveals the astronomical pace of these upgrades. We are truly living in the future already.
Gayle, again a greatly welcomed comment. Interestingly, Alistair sent me New York Times Magazine link to an article published today by Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Tillie Norwood, actor https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/magazine/ai-actress-tilly-norwood.html. Alistair's link allowed me behind NYT paywall. You may not be so lucky, but if you can access it, the article is worth reading. The more I research and write about Tillie Sutton and the potential of AI legal bots, the more susceptible I sense the law is to an AI takeover. Lord Justice Briggs gets close in his recent speech here https://supremecourt.uk/uploads/speech_lord_briggs_20052026_de46afe657.pdf