Neal Kumar Katyal

Harvey was not some god.

It was our sparring partner.

Brilliant, tireless, occasionally insufferable, but not a god.

Harvey asked the questions, we found the answer.

Now, this is bigger than just law.

It's about all of us.

For centuries, the expert was the person who read the most, who remembered the most, who'd seen the most.

The seasoned doctor, the experienced lawyer, their edge was accumulated knowledge.

AI is making that edge nearly worthless.

Not because humans no longer matter, but because that particular advantage, pattern recognition across vast data and breadth of knowledge, is now available to anyone.

AI can analyze.

AI can predict.

But the one thing AI can't do is the thing that actually won that argument, connect.

That's the last irreplaceable human skill.

Persuade one person to change their mind by appealing to something beneath the surface.

Adjust not just the argument, but the delivery, the pause, the tone, the look that says, I hear you, and here is my answer.

You know, at one moment in the argument, Justice Barrett asked a question that Harvey hadn't predicted.

And I remember it felt like she and I were the only two people in that marble and mahogany room.

And in the half second before I answered, I did something no algorithm can do.

I looked at her.