AI Not to Replace Lawyers, Not Yet
May 9, 2017
Robot or AI lawyers may be effective in locating relevant cases for references, but they are far away from replacing lawyers, who still need to go to the court and represent a client.
ReadWrite in a recently published analytical article titled Look at All the Amazing Things AI Can (and Can’t yet) Do for Lawyers says:
Even if AI can scan documents and predict which ones will be relevant to a legal case, other tasks such as actually advising a client or appearing in court cannot currently be performed by computers.
The author further explains that what the present generation of AI tools or robots does. They merely find relevant cases based on indexing and keywords, which was a time-consuming and cumbersome process. Thus, what robots do is eliminate the tedious work that was performed by interns or lower level employees. Lawyers still need to collect evidence, prepare the case and argue in the court to win a case. The robots are coming, but only for doing lower level jobs and not to snatch them.
Vishol Ingole, May 9, 2017
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