February 2021
Intermediate to advanced
84 pages
2h 8m
English
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Chapter 2. AI and the Legal Industry
In Chapter 1, we discussed impacts that AI has on many legal considerations and how law enforcement uses AI and reactions to such from various legislatures.
In this chapter, we explore what makes AI great at law, including how attorneys use AI to interact with clients and courts and prepare cases, courts use it to assign judgments, and policymakers could use it to understand bills before they are passed. We will talk about the liability of autonomous, or self-directing, AI and explore autonomous vehicles as a real-world example of this sort of AI.
How AI Is Used in Law
Since laws and court decisions are already compiled and recorded as massive amounts of electronic data in a collection so vast that it is difficult for human beings to read and make sense of it anyway, they make the perfect training materials for building machine learning models. (Remember the garbage in, garbage out rule; thus, we also run the danger of the bias of individual judges leading to biased AI because their cases are part of the training data.)
AI in Courts
As government budgets tighten and remote processing becomes the norm with COVID-19, it only makes sense that AI will proliferate in our court systems. AI risk assessment tools and AI judges are two of the ways we will see AI enter the judicial system.
AI risk assessment tools
In U.S. courts, there are currently AI risk assessment tools that analyze a defendant’s file and use it to predict recidivism, which is ...
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