13-08-2017 08:00 via theguardian.com

Why a computer could help you get a fair trial | John Naughton

Recent research suggests that AI could make a valuable contribution to the judicial processIn 1963, an American attorney named Reed Lawlor published a prescient article in the journal of the American Bar Association. “In a few years,” he wrote, “lawyers will rely more and more on computers to perform many tasks for them. They will not rely on computers simply to do their bookkeeping, filing or other clerical tasks. They will also use them in their research and in the analysis a
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