Artificial intelligence not fairy dust, legal conference hears News

Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing to the point where it could be considered negligent not to use it to automate legal processes, the premier international conference on the topic heard yesterday. A pre-conference workshop on AI and legal practice heard that technologies are already being deployed. Despite the hype, there is real substance here,' Dan Rubins, co-founder of Silicon Valley-based Legal Robot said. The workshop was opened by David Halliwell, director of knowledge and innovation at interrnational firm Pinsent Masons, whose innovation team includes data scientists, knowledge and process engineers and machine learning experts. 'Lawyers have expectations that AI is magic fairy dust you can sprinkle onto work.