Countries like America and China are leading the front in AI technology. However, many are still concerned at the thought of robots replacing us and the social stigma attached with the integration of AI in the legal industry. To better that understanding, we've decided to interview Dr Richard Cornes from the University of Essex, a constitutional lawyer and a psychoanalyst. In short, he's the perfect person to question the legitimacy of AI in the legal industry. "Psycho-analysis is described as the matrix of looking at the way things are and say why they're doing what they are doing. Now, I run the module on Understanding Judges at the University of Essex which primarily focus on my area of research: psycho-analysis to understand how judges think and how the law works."

In AI, the race is between America and China, and China may win. For the same reason, Germany is likely to lose. There is only one thing worse than being talked about, as Oscar Wilde noted, and that is not being talked about. That should give Germans pause. In the global conversation about a crucial technology and industry of the future -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- Germany is not being talked about.

ANGELA MERKEL, Germany's chancellor, has a reputation for being dour. But if she wants to, she can be quite funny. When asked at a recent conference organised by Ada, a new quarterly publication for technophiles, whether robots should have rights, she dead-panned: "What do you mean? The interview was also striking for a different reason. Mrs Merkel showed herself preoccupied by artificial intelligence (AI) and its geopolitics. "In the US, control over personal data is privatised to a large extent.

ANGELA MERKEL, Germany's chancellor, has a reputation for being dour. But if she wants to, she can be quite funny. When asked at a recent conference organised by Ada, a new quarterly publication for technophiles, whether robots should have rights, she dead-panned: "What do you mean? The interview was also striking for a different reason. Mrs Merkel showed herself preoccupied by artificial intelligence (AI) and its geopolitics. "In the US, control over personal data is privatised to a large extent.