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Yep this is my takeaway from the story. I will not be sad when AI automates away the majority of the legal industry. Really really terrifying that one's access

by yomly 10y ago

Yep this is my takeaway from the story. I will not be sad when AI automates away the majority of the legal industry. Really really terrifying that one's access to justice is dependent on their access to finances. Luckily this guy was smart enough to actually represent himself - credit to him for that!

Pigo 10y ago
This has been my reason for being against the death penalty for many years. It's hard to justify when the OJ's of the world get a pass due to wealth or celebrity. I never thought of AI being used in this capacity. Seems like we'd live in The Day The Earth Stood Still world, giving the automatons the jurisdiction to meat out justice.
- bluejekyll 10y ago
  Hmm. This is actually an interesting application for AI. Is anyone working on this? There is a huge amount of case law that could be entered into the corpus.
  - mdpopescu 10y ago
    IBM's Watson is reading a ton of case law, as far as I know. Clio [1] also has some articles about AI and laws, if I recall correctly. [1] https://www.clio.com/ https://www.clio.com/
  - saint_fiasco 10y ago
    DoNotPay is a chatbot that can help people with simple legal cases like appealing parking tickets. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/chatbot-ai-lawyer-donotpay-parking-tickets-london-new-york https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/chatbot-a...
- krallja 10y ago
  mete
  - Pigo 10y ago
    thakns :)
restalis 10y ago
"this guy was smart enough to actually represent himself" This was my shock in all this. I've created a personal profile for this guy on story's beginning and ended up with a whole new profile at the end. What a character development!
- Grazester 10y ago
  Now who is buying the movie right?
mywittyname 10y ago
> I will not be sad when AI automates away the majority of the legal industry. It won't. Companies will just sell their specially-crafted AIs to law firms and governments for a lot of money. These AIs are currently used for identifying judges likely to be sympathetic toward your cause.
- yomly 10y ago
  AI ought to lead to a disruption of the industry. Currently, the legal industry has managed to entrench itself using technicality which makes it difficult to replicate and leads to very expensive fees. When a software solution comes along - in principle it will be able to scale and therefore charge substantially lower fees while still earning competitive margin as compared to a traditional law firm. This will lead to a democratisation of access to justice. Think Amazon for retail, Netflix for TV or Spotify for music. (Maybe ignore the part about profits for now...)

by yomly 10y ago

Pigo 10y ago

This has been my reason for being against the death penalty for many years. It's hard to justify when the OJ's of the world get a pass due to wealth or celebrity. I never thought of AI being used in this capacity. Seems like we'd live in The Day The Earth Stood Still world, giving the automatons the jurisdiction to meat out justice.

bluejekyll 10y ago
Hmm. This is actually an interesting application for AI. Is anyone working on this? There is a huge amount of case law that could be entered into the corpus.
- mdpopescu 10y ago
  IBM's Watson is reading a ton of case law, as far as I know. Clio [1] also has some articles about AI and laws, if I recall correctly. [1] https://www.clio.com/ https://www.clio.com/
- saint_fiasco 10y ago
  DoNotPay is a chatbot that can help people with simple legal cases like appealing parking tickets. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/chatbot-ai-lawyer-donotpay-parking-tickets-london-new-york https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/chatbot-a...
krallja 10y ago
mete
- Pigo 10y ago
  thakns :)

restalis 10y ago

"this guy was smart enough to actually represent himself" This was my shock in all this. I've created a personal profile for this guy on story's beginning and ended up with a whole new profile at the end. What a character development!

Grazester 10y ago
Now who is buying the movie right?

mywittyname 10y ago

> I will not be sad when AI automates away the majority of the legal industry. It won't. Companies will just sell their specially-crafted AIs to law firms and governments for a lot of money. These AIs are currently used for identifying judges likely to be sympathetic toward your cause.

yomly 10y ago
AI ought to lead to a disruption of the industry. Currently, the legal industry has managed to entrench itself using technicality which makes it difficult to replicate and leads to very expensive fees. When a software solution comes along - in principle it will be able to scale and therefore charge substantially lower fees while still earning competitive margin as compared to a traditional law firm. This will lead to a democratisation of access to justice. Think Amazon for retail, Netflix for TV or Spotify for music. (Maybe ignore the part about profits for now...)