Theodore Folkman, co-chair of Rubin Rudman’s Litigation Group, was quoted in the March 16, 2026 Law360 article, “Excitement, Tinged With Skepticism, Over AAA’s AI Arbitrator.” Please note, the article is behind a paywall.
“I have questions about the nature of what it is that arbitrators or judges or decision-makers
actually do when they’re making decisions. I don’t think that what I’m doing, or any other
arbitrator that I know is doing when they’re making a decision, is taking the input and trying to
decide what output is statistically the most probable,” said Rubin Rudman LLP co-chair Ted
Folkman. “I’m making a little light — right? But that’s what a large language model does.”“Obviously, arbitrators try to make decisions that are consistent with the law,” he added. “And of
course, we want the law to be predictable and decisions to be predictable, but I don’t think that
anybody should think that the best or the only criterion of what makes a good outcome in a legal
dispute is, is it perfectly predictable?”
