The view from ChatGPT: a legal psychogeography of the future

“Your potentially distinctive 2026-30 niche isn’t “AI”, “legal geography”, “bunkers’ or even “future of work”. It is the study and practice of how humans navigate profound technological and institutional change – with AI providing the contemporary case, and your accumulated experience providing the unsually broad analytical toolkit” ChatGPT, September 2026 So, I prompted ChatGPT to review my last few years of writings and outputs and asked it to tell me what it thought I was heading towards, what the various paths would converge towards. I guess this is the contemporary equivalent of ‘Googling’ your own name back at the start of the Millennium, just to see how you were appearing out there on the interweb. But getting an LLM to read all of your work and to synthesise it into a prediction of trending (all done in a matter of seconds) is oh so much more spooky. Most of what it came up with was predictable (within the range of my own insight and intention) but some of the combinatory…