20 top lawyers were beaten by legal AI. Here are their surprising responses

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm not looking forward to the day when courts are investigating the hacking of e-lawyers.

[–]Mnemonic[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree with that.

But this shows another topic I think:

I've been employed with people who where manually filling out excel forms from printed out pdf files... This took a LONG time, weeks. I came along, checked out the pdf files and with a pdf reading java-lib I easily finished the job within minutes (the writing took about a day with testing, but when started my 'program' took 1-6 minutes depending on the load to finnish the task).

This was for basic comparison of tables and large files. But logic could be applied to LAW and therefor machines can 'read' it faster. It's just if-else statements with some drama.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

In criminal trial I can imagine this catching on, as it could produce more consistent sentencing outcomes; assuming the state didn't factor in some racial coefficient.

However, I doubt that senior corporate lawyers will ever be replaced by computers.
Corporate lawyers contractually scheme with execs for profit/advantage, or scheme for PR damage control. I'm not sure how execs could scheme with a legal program.

It's alarming to imagine a scheming AI bot that is connected to global high-speed trading systems. Something like a nascent SkyNET of Wall St.