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Artificial Lawyer warns token costs may become visible legal AI spend

Artificial Lawyer’s token-cost thought experiment argues that agentic workflows and heavier frontier-model use could make token consumption a more visible cost for firms and clients.

BY MIDSIZED DESK · JUNE 16, 2026 · 1 MIN READ

Artificial Lawyer’s token-cost thought experiment argues that agentic workflows and heavier frontier-model use could make token consumption a more visible cost for firms and clients. Midsized firms should start tracking which use cases need expensive model capacity and which can be handled by cheaper, bounded tools.

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