Artificial Intelligence In Arbitration: Revolutionary Or Impractical

I. Introduction

With the Covid-19 pandemic forcing all sectors to adopt flexible working styles, there has never been a time more significant than 2020 to understand the wonders that technology has to offer. Technology has kept businesses, offices, and all other entities up and running through the year. This applies to the arbitration sector as well. Worldwide lockdowns forced mostly all international arbitral institutions to adhere to remote forms of dispute resolution raising numerous questions as to the risks and benefits of the system.

Taking this discussion up a notch, there are sections that call for a gradual replacement of the human factor in arbitrations to be replaced by a solely machine led regime. The desired result being a more efficient, well-calibrated, speedy system of arbitration devoid of biases and prejudices that very often are said to plague in-person arbitrations. In the present article, the author seeks to test the effectiveness of an