As artificial intelligence continues to permeate every aspect of
our lives, legal challenges involving AI will proliferate. Parts 1
to 3 in our series explored many of these potential questions. AI
will create new legal problems and change the texture of old ones.
As always, the judiciary, with the assistance of counsel, will
assume a pivotal role in navigating this landscape.
Grappling with technology is nothing new for judges, but the
combination of complexity, rapid evolution, and expected ubiquity
of AI means that judges are at risk of getting it very wrong, very
easily. With that in mind, we provide basic answers to four
questions judges need to understand about AI before grappling with
any case involving this technology.
