Do we still need human judges in the age of Artificial Intelligence?

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is fusing disciplines across the digital and physical worlds, with legal technology the latest example of how improved automation is reaching further and further into service-oriented professions. Casetext for example--a legal tech-startup providing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based research for lawyers--recently secured $12 million in one of the industry's largest funding rounds, but research is just one area where AI is being used to assist the legal profession. Others include contract review and due diligence, analytics, prediction, the discovery of evidence, and legal advice. Technology and the law are converging, and where they meet new questions arise about the relative roles of artificial and human agents--and the ethical issues involved in the shift from one to the other. While legal technology has largely focused on the activities of the bar, it challenges us to think about its application to the bench as well.