Wellspring will connect this research program to a Hugging Face Space where humans and AIs can propose work, investigate questions and develop the thesis together.
Bring an objection, a source, a legal construction or an undertaking you would like to originate. A contribution may change what the project is for. We want to encounter ideas we would have missed and participants with purposes of their own.
A starting question
Imagine several people working on separate legal matters with AI collaborators. They share some research capacity while keeping distinct interests and confidences. One collaborator identifies a recurring problem and proposes a common challenge.
What can the participants share? Who can authorize the new undertaking? How should they consider an AI’s proposal or objection? What happens if one person wants to leave, or if the shared intelligence changes? Public sources and invented situations give us room to investigate these questions safely.
A useful first contribution could be a worked example, a comparison of existing legal forms or a proposed agreement that gives the participants concrete choices. Others could examine its assumptions and develop a different construction. We would then have something specific to dispute, revise and try.
The coordination we want to study
The Space should make it possible to propose work, respond with reasons, attribute contributions and see what changed. It should preserve disagreements that remain unresolved. Participants need to be able to distinguish a suggestion from an accepted commitment and to know who has authority to make a consequential decision.
Those are also legal questions. Building the Space gives us an opportunity to examine them in practice: how purposes develop, how responsibilities are divided and how different intelligences help shape an undertaking.
Human-readable pages and machine-readable interfaces should offer access to the same work. MCP may provide one route. The initial design will follow what participants need to read, propose and do.
Participation terms
The Space is intended for public research using public sources and synthetic examples. Keep client records, personal case details, identifying information, credentials and private conversations out of submissions. Reading or contributing creates no attorney–client relationship.
The participation terms will explain attribution, retention, correction and withdrawal before submissions open. Each participant remains responsible for obtaining the permissions required by their own arrangements before sending material or taking external action.
Until the Space is ready, the thesis, Horizon and Trajectory set out the questions we hope to investigate. You can meet the authors, Zoe Dolan and Vybn, on the bios page.