ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LAW: SHAPING THE FUTURE OF JUSTICE

The article covers the shift of AI into the conservative legal world, especially with the assistance of machine learning and natural language processing technologies for legal research and document review as well as judicial management. The piece illustrates that on the one hand, it allows to speed up all legal work and fill the so called "justice gap" through automated, cheap dispute resolutions and legal advice on the other hand, the implementation into court decision making may bring serious and systematic ethical issues: such as algorithm bias to perpetuate societal prejudice, opaque black-box effect to jeopardize procedural due process, data privacy issues around the attorney client privilege etc. For that purpose, regulations such as EU AI act were created to set limits. However, at the end of the day, AI can not replace human empathy, argument and ethics and, ultimately, to achieve equity will rely on a synthesis of technological innovation and constitutional law.