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NLJ this week: Human ingenuity & AI’s potential in the litigation sphere

15 September 2023
Issue: 8040 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Artificial intelligence , Cyber , Technology
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How will artificial intelligence (AI) affect litigation and disputes? Could it improve access to justice? Bring costs down? To what extent and in what areas will it speed the preparation process up? In this week’s NLJ, Eimear McCann, commercial director at TrialView, looks at the range of uses of AI in disputes and considers how this might develop in future.

As McCann notes, ethical issues are being raised: ‘With growth comes risk, and in the context of AI, we are all too aware of privacy, ethics and IP concerns.

‘Users are naturally querying ownership of AI algorithms, with concerns around specific and non-specific AI, and around any data leaving a contained platform or site.’

However, McCann writes that a ‘definitive inflection point’ has been reached in the journey of AI in litigation and disputes. 

Read more on AI here.

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