Posts Tagged ‘Artificial Intelligence’
How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Legal Ethics
Artificial intelligence (AI), a process that mimics certain operations of the human mind, is transforming legal ethics. However, using emerging and existing technologies to practice law raises complicated and complex ethical issues. Consider some of the latest additions of legal technology: A voice-activated personal assistant such as the RightsNOW App that handles legal research questions. While…
Read MoreLaw Firms Are Excited About Chatbots
Chatbots are a promising advancement in artificial intelligence (AI), and law firms should not leave themselves out. This new form of AI has snuck up on the internet the past few years, now heading forward at full force in 2018 to change the flow and structure of various roles in the legal world. Working with…
Read MoreCriminal Risk Assessments: Secret Algorithms, Flawed Results and a Black-Box Future
Increasingly, criminal sentencing decisions are guided in part by sophisticated computer algorithms that aim to predict, among other things, a convict’s likelihood to re-offend. While the likelihood of recidivism is clearly central to sentencing, some are sounding alarms over the opacity of the so-called “risk assessments,” which are often derived from formulas that are proprietary…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence for Attorneys: No, Not a New Robot Overlord
Artificial intelligence (AI) is inspiring great optimism for its potential to improve the lives and jobs of its users. But it also inspires great concern for its potential to disrupt industries and automate people out of their jobs. The legal industry is no exception. Tasks once thought to require human intelligence are increasingly being performed,…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence Isn’t Replacing Lawyers but It Can Make Them More Efficient
Continuous developments in machine learning technology carry implications for the way firms of all sizes will manage workloads and business development. Although it has not been as widely accepted in the legal community as in other industries, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming recognized as a viable tool that can be used to improve the…
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