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Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by perihelions on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @07:10AM (#34323580)
It could also make things much worse, due to Jevon's paradox. The way rich societies throw away tons of food because it isn't scarce, or how modern software is slower than ever because hardware is too cheap. If half-baked AI's lower *some* of the costs of law practice, we might end up wasting more resources than ever before fighting against the proliferating volume of it.

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.

Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by pontifier on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:07AM (#34324253)
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 (#34325260)
Sounds like something out of Accelerando.
Re:AI-powered lawyer will be first of its kind to represent ... by enkid on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:11AM (#34324300)
Is modern software really slower or are we just noticing when it is slow because we're used to it being fast? I am genuinely asking.