K2: Contracts as Living Systems

If an alien landed on Earth tomorrow, how would it describe our contract ecosystems?

“This sucks.” (Actual quote.*)

No one actually reads the contracts lawyers so punctiliously and adversarially create. And all contemporaneous contract AI will do is lobotomize us further, at machine scale, until no one with any business actually effectuating the contract’s requirements has any clue what is going on . . . until the lawsuits arrive.

K2 first promotes an alternate, or “alien”, framework for what contracts actually are, what they need to become, and where the weight of history and tech is pushing them. You may also think of K2 as “first agita” for a blank slate redesign of contract “technology”, for contracts as systems (not mere textual artifacts; not that alone). Our transactional infrastructure needs to better embody human aspiration—from our most mundane wants to our highest societal ideals. And equally, it needs to better embody sound computational theory. To wit: If the progenitor of Information Theory, Claude Shannon, were to redesign American contracting, what would that look like?

K2 aspires to answer that question. From the sturm and drang of the debate herein, to new operational concepts driven by real transactional experience. K2 aspires to spark an entirely new technology; to make contracts living, adaptive systems. To improve human autonomy by thoughtfully leveraging that of machines.

*No.