What Is AI - Everything You Need To Know About Artificial Intelligence. It is human nature to ask a simple question about any new technology or system. How will this affect my life in the present and future? Will I still have a job after the technology is deployed? Of course, AI is now a catch phrase in every field of human endeavor. How will AI improve my life? Will AI take over the world? Will we be dominated by machines that do everything better than us? The first question must be: What is AI? This ZDNet article does a good job of explaining it, and is a reason to be comfortable with its future effects on our lives, and on law practice in particular. Lawyers will always be human beings, because human problems cover a range of things in which emotion, learning, and other intangibles are defining. Future lawyers will certainly be aided by machines that can collate, analyze and make conclusions about vast data sets, and can even exhibit what can be called "narrow artificial intelligence". That is, these machines can look at a particular problem or desired solution, and "learn" ways to get there faster or with better analysis. However, humans have "general intelligence", which I believe is not possible for a non human to achieve. So, consider the lawyer's future safe for humans. The biggest risk is whether future humans will voluntarily give up their own judgment, by mistaking superior data analysis for wisdom.