Video killed the radio star, the way automation killed the factory worker. Lawyers are next.
Lawyers are expensive, greedy creatures, so it's no wonder how everyone wants them dead. Advances in artificial intelligence make it possible for software to do things that people in the legal profession do, without the self-righteousness and/or self-importantance that comes with the package. And minus the hourly rates.
Like this service being offered by Blackstone Discovery. It promises "detailed data analysis", "data filtering, tagging, and processing", and other very-Jetsons/Minority Report-sounding activities.
Apparently, this service can be very useful in discovery procedure where there is a superabundance of documents that need to be sifted through. This filtering of relevant data can be done in a fraction of a time that a legal team can.
This search is not your usual Control + F, but one based in logic. It's eerily like the HAL-9000's great-grand-father.
I am confident though, that the legal profession has yet to be obsolete. In fact, automation will most likely make it easier for lawyers in accomplishing ministerial, non-substantial tasks, and charge more, while we're at it.
But in so far as robots, or artificial intelligence having a monopoly on the law, this can, and should, only happen in fiction.
Because the life of the law is not logic but experience. And what are we if we do not allow mercy to season justice.
2 comments:
Your computer is rattling instructive and your articles are wonderful.
http://www.levinson-axelrodlawyers.net
Martindale's Attorney Directory helps you find california Lynwood personal injury attorneys and law firms quickly and easily. http://www.levinson-axelrodlawyers.net/practice-areas/wrongful-death/
Post a Comment