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> robotic lawyers will bring cheap legal services to the masses who can't afford lawyers today. Just what in the world is a robotic lawyer good for?! It's hard
by zeteo 15y ago
> robotic lawyers will bring cheap legal services to the masses who can't afford lawyers today.
Just what in the world is a robotic lawyer good for?! It's hard to imagine a profession in which a weird corporeal presence might actually be less useful. Yes, databases and expert systems are taking up a lot of the work that fresh law school graduates were doing a few decades ago. So the poor humans these days need to spend more time with badly paid and unexciting activities, like confronting hostile witnesses and persuading juries...
- wladimir 15y agoA lot of lawyer work consists of document analysis, which could be done by a advanced IBM-watson-like systems. The point is not that it will replace all lawyers, but all-in-all, they have less work, so less people can be employed full time (same with doctors, and maybe even programmers, don't think we're safe ;) ).
- ajuc 15y agoAlready happening - for now in the small niches - like systems that allow lay man to search law (less demand for lawyers), or systems that handle routine cases leaving judges only checking documents and signing them (see my previous comment). There won't be a C3PO walking awkwardly into court room, but some day most of the cases will be handled in the software, leaving controversial matters and appelations to humans.