How artificial intelligence is used in law - raconteur.net

Artificial intelligence or AI is the future of the legal profession. The good news for anyone worried by that statement is people have been making it for several decades. The first international conference on law and artificial intelligence was held in Boston in 1987, before the invention – let alone the mass use of – the worldwide web. Despite the early enthusiasm the concept of computers taking over legal reasoning tasks from human lawyers has yet to become reality. Partly this is because artificial intelligence developed more slowly everywhere than the enthusiasts predicted.