The Law and AI

Both examples illustrate a misguided confidence in technology’s ability to accurately analyze or truly understand human activities. As AI quickly moves into legal practices, analyzing long-form narrative content (legal briefs, judgment summaries, etc.), the danger is that this same misguided confidence in the accuracy of AI will prevail. AI is very good, and light years ahead of where it was just a decade ago, but it is far from “intelligent.” Indeed, it is only as good as the data it is provided and needs close human supervision and continuous training to be of use. AI can augment skilled human workers (legal professionals), but it cannot provide actionable guidance and never should be solely relied upon to do so.