Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ...
by pontifier on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:07AM
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I'm imagining a dystopian future where everyone wears a legal advice headset that is constantly whispering to them about things they are doing, or need to change to avoid a lawsuit. Kind of like a continual game of twister where if you misstep, all the watching legal AIs jump on you, immediately serving you electronically, with court dates pre-scheduled and all the evidence they need to win the case already submitted.
Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ...
by thrtythreeforty on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @09:25AM
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Sounds like something out of Accelerando.
See, the sword cuts both ways. Prosecutors' office would run more efficiently, would pursue much larger caseloads (lower priority ones) with fewer employees and less time. Civil lawsuits could become much cheaper to file; trolling could expand from niches (like patent law) to much broader, more socially-impactful forms of warfare. The financial risk/reward equation is what deters this, and lowering the costs means eliminating the deterrence. And imagine regulatory compliance costs, when regulators feel emboldened to design regimes so elaborate they themselves don't understand them, because they have AI assistants capable of parsing them.