Neal Kumar Katyal
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Harvey even predicted Justice Gorsuch's separate opinion striking down the tariffs, almost verbatim.
Now, I want to be precise about something.
I'm a lawyer.
Precision really matters.
What we were doing was not some trick.
We weren't pulling some fast one over on the court when we predicted these things.
Because predictability is what we want, especially in courts.
A justice who returns to the same principles, case after case, year after year, is a justice with character.
Predictability is just consistency made visible.
It is in every sense a compliment.
What Harvey found in these justices was not weakness.
It was integrity.
But if I had just parroted Harvey's output, I would have lost the case 10-0, and there aren't even 10 justices.
Because AI has a shadow side.
When a tool is powerful,
When a tool is powerful, you've all seen it, people stop thinking.
The computer says so.
Four words, human judgment ends, then people just fold like a cheap lawn chair.
The machine thinks, the human just nods, and in that nod, somewhere we disappear.
My legal team never nodded.