Artificial Intelligence and Law: Will Robots End the Legal Profession? - The Market Mogul

Advancements in AI, Big Data, the Internet of Things and automation have many industries worried that these systems will push them out, absorb their work, make humans redundant, or accelerate the speed of business too fast for them to adapt. From formal models of legal reasoning to automated information extraction from legal databases and texts, the interaction of artificial intelligence and law will disrupt the contemporary status of legal practice. With the latest'wonder automation' in the form of JP Morgan's COIN, building upon the adoption of AI systems by firms such as Clifford Chance, and development projects like Denton's NextLaw Labs leading the way, are lawyers set to be replaced? AI will spell the end of lawyers. However, the age of automation and digitisation gives birth to an even more beautiful legal specialist: the cyber-lawyer – an augmented specialist, combining the processing power of AI with powerful searches of legal indexes in mere seconds through Big Data, produced through a human interface.