Comment: Artificial Intelligence – Application in Legal Legal IT Insider

Is AI a threat or an opportunity? It is both, to those focused on the routine it is a threat, to those focused on innovating/bespoke it is an opportunity, as pointed out by John O. McGinnis & Russell G. Pearce[1]. The advice therefore should be to understand these new technologies and explore what opportunities they create. This should not be limited to iterative improvements to the current process but more importantly to identifying opportunities for transformational change. This last year has seen Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerging as a very hot topic within the mainstream media (see Elon Musk, Stephen Hawkins, Bill Gates, etc.)[2]. Many of the articles have invoked the spectre of a new generation of'Robots/AI' raising up to take skilled jobs, previously the preserve of the professions (see Susskind book)[3].