Practicing artificial intelligence in legal Thomson Reuters

Artificial intelligence is going to make legal work faster and more efficient, but it needs help from lawyers and legal professionals to do so. As a Research Director in Thomson Reuters Research and Development group, I work firsthand with technologies like machine learning, natural language processing and artificial intelligence (AI). Since we work on creating solutions for customers, I also meet many intelligent and experienced legal professionals. I'm often asked whether the technologies we work on – particularly AI – are going to send these professionals to the same part of history books as milkmen and stenographers. To allay any remaining concern, expanding on that short answer may be helpful.