Meaningful artificial intelligence is still a far-away technology. But crowdsourced intelligence, which harnesses the collective knowledge, experience, and analysis of a large group of people, is quickly becoming a powerful and effective method for solving problems. Crowdsourcing works by utilizing the power of large numbers. While an individual may have biases and mistakes, and is only able to generate a few particular ideas, a large group of people can balance out the problems of the individual, and come up with a much greater body of new ideas. With so many ideas and perspectives pooled together, a superior kind of thinking can emerge.

Can crowdsourcing be applied to alternative dispute-resolution? This paper will explore the potential that crowdsourced dispute resolution, made possible by current technology, has to provide as a radical alternative to current dispute resolution processes.

What if you could reproduce a jury trial millions of times, for almost no cost, and even less time? What if you could average the views and decisions of a large selection of judges on a single issue? These are the kinds of possibilities that crowdsourcing opens up for dispute resolution.

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