Law and Artificial Intelligence - Will We Miss the Minority Report? - Blandy & Blandy Solicitors

A recent AI project correctly predicted the outcome of hundreds of European Court of Human Rights' cases in 4 out of 5 cases. I was asked whether this demonstrates we don't need lawyers anymore? I began to think this through and came to the view that the answer is probably not as many, but just better ones and this is why. As a profession generally, we are required to wade through, assimilate and process vast amounts of data. For years we have relied on teams of paralegals, assistants, associates and partners to do this work and provide grateful clients with the benefit of our learning interpretation and advice.