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Professor Clay Christensen (Harvard Business School) described two ways technology may impact incumbent industries: sustaining and disrupting. This article surveys recent critiques of the practice of international arbitration (IA) and assesses whether, in light of those critiques and of the basic tenets of arbitration, the growing presence of artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool is more likely to be the former or the latter. It concludes with assessments of the present state of AI guidance available and makes recommendations.

                           Therefore when Tao is lost, there is goodness

                                When goodness is lost, there is kindness

                                  When kindness is lost, there is justice.

                                     When justice is lost, there is ritual.

       Now ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty, the beginning of confusion.

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