Integrating New Technologies in International Arbitration: Thoughts on the Future of Our Profession

Abstract

Since the launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have been everywhere. In just a matter of months, ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer app in history, and less than a year from its release, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced at the company’s first-ever developer conference that the service had garnered approximately 100 million weekly users. Around the same time in November 2023, ‘AI’ was selected by the Collins dictionary as its word of the year, defined as an ‘abbreviation for artificial intelligence: the modelling of human mental functions by computer programs’. 
It seems safe to say that the rise of ChatGPT has captured the public imagination and fuelled a surge of interest in the promise and potential of new technologies to transform our lives. The implications are as wide-ranging as the expert predictions for an AI revolution, oscillating from the wildly optimistic to the depressingly dystopian.