The law is at a watershed moment when it comes to the treatment of AI. Local governments are under pressure to allow self-driving vehicle experiments all across the country, while the ACLU is suing for the right to investigate potential discrimination via algorithm in employment, lending, and housing situations. In the past, legal decision makers have been more likely to use algorithmic decision making than to make decisions about such decision making. But that will soon change. I will offer a historical overview of how the law has dealt with decision-making technologies in the past and what this suggests about AI’s legal future, including its likely near future under the present political situations in the US and Europe.