Artificial intelligence Won't Create Robot Lawyers - It Will Enhance Human Lawyers

Artificial intelligence isn't a magical unicorn: It's a powerful tool lawyers are already wielding. Everyone who thinks we are destined for a future in which robots wearing suits are going to be trying cases and acting as judges needs to rethink. The SciFi movies you have watched in which robots that are computers dispense with justice unhampered by human sensibilities are fake. Not real. In fact, AI is being used by every human lawyer today. Right now. When you access Ed Walter's FastCase to do legal research, you are using an AI engine that uses huge datasets to find, and deliver the cases on point. When you use an eDiscovery app to sift through thousands of documents, and bring you those that are relevant to your case, you are getting the benefit of an AI engine. When we can't see a process, we tend, as humans, to call the result magic. But, magic is just another way of describing the enhancements to human knowledge that are possible with advanced science. AI is your friend. You will be using it, fellow lawyers, whether you like it or not. If you don't, you will be consigned to the dustbin of history. Get over it.

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[Harvey Morrell]

Preach, Brother Georges!
- me, a member of the legal profession choir