Is AI the answer?

https://bpasjournals.com/library-science/index.php/journal/article/view/2284

An Analysis of the Impact of Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Sector

Use of Artificial Intelligence in the legal field has made drastic changes to the traditional practices of legal profession by improving on the aspects of efficiency, accuracy and access. This paper looks at how innovations in AI like machine learning, natural language processing, and predictive analytics help or hinder the several processes of work in law including case studies, contracts, and legal decisions. The paper examines the efficiencies which include cutting down on costs and time, the reduction of human errors, and risk assessment of the legal operations through integration of AI technologies, the disadvantages of introducing the free use of AI, the ethical consideration, and issue that might be a hindrance in the integration process such as bias in the application of AI and the dilemma of data privacy. Therefore, while summarising the opportunities and challenges AI provides for the purpose of the legal work presented in this paper it is possible to conclude that this scholarship outlines how the AI is changing the nature of the legal services and the directions of such alterations in the future.

Would AI be fair?

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Chapter 14: Artificial intelligence and the right to a fair trial

In the administration of justice, the court’s decision is based on the processing of information, regardless of the type of case or the nature of the proceedings. When a case is brought to court, the parties present certain information in the form of allegations and evidence. This information is then often supplemented or modified in the course of the proceedings by the formulation of new allegations or the taking of further evidence which is a source of information relevant to the case. In the end, the courts process and evaluate this information, draw conclusions, and make a decision about the case.

It is theoretically possible to attempt to reduce the judicial process to a simple ‘calculation’ in which the input, in the form of information about the law, evidence, and facts of a particular case, is the basis for the generation of the output, i.e. a decision by the court. In this view, the use of algorithms or artificial intelligence (AI) to generate court decisions on the basis of information provided by the parties, derived from the content of the evidence taken and illustrating the state of the law, is a theoretically feasible solution for the practice of justice. Indeed, some court cases today are not so informationally complex that they cannot be resolved using AI mechanisms.