Abstract
It’s amazing how artificial intelligence and law interact! Even though the fields might not seem related to one another, closer inspection reveals that they could be useful to legal practitioners. Though there are inherent restrictions, the current consensus among legal academics argues that technology and law are interconnected with checks and balances. Do they maintain equilibrium while influencing one another within set parameters and requiring adaptation within a legal framework?
Artificial Intelligence combined with the legal profession demonstrates dedication and risk. The article shows the potential of AI in revolutionizing the legal processes including the facilitation of ethical and jurisprudential dilemmas. The article demonstrates the potential of AI to transform legal processes as well as its role in addressing ethical and jurisprudential challenges.
This article examines how AI affects India’s legal system, emphasizing a cautious approach that upholds the rule of law while ensuring justice for all and looks at the legal and ethical concerns about AI in the judicial sphere in India and how the government is likely to address these leading to the formulation of laws governing artificial intelligence (AI) throughout India. It also covers international applications of existing Indian AI tools in legal fraternities including current databases for case reference.
Lastly, it will cover how AI will change law firms more than ever before including a definite sort of method used for processing such algorithm basis.
Introduction
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been hailed as a technological game-changer that will transform traditional systems with its automated procedure. AI is an essential component of modern technology because of its capacity for systematic information processing. AI is one of the most recent areas of engineering and science. Soon after the outbreak of World War II, AI began in earnest.
AI’s commitment to revolutionizing the legal industry in routine tasks by bringing about a shift in legal practice by automating repetitive work to enhance legal analysis, streamline procedures, and also increase accuracy. This article examines legal personhood and AI protection, looking at ways to preserve rights in the digital age, showing the ways for successful governance of AI, and keeping legal professionals encouraged about digital innovations for transforming the legal industry.
AI Revolutionizing Legal Research: Pioneering the Future of Legal Professionalism
It is important to understand how Artificial intelligence will pioneer the future of legal professionals. It is crucial to understand the operation of AI to provide faster and more accurate results as well as it is also important to consider its ethical issues.
We explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming ordinary legal research techniques through an in-depth examination, providing legal practitioners with increased effectiveness and understanding. With its advanced automated procedure of giving results, legal professionals may now have access to massive legal resources, expedited research, and precise case results. Yet, limitations and ethical issues are thoroughly investigated.
The fundamental inquiries underlying this revolutionary journey must be addressed. Here are a few significant inquiries that legal practitioners need to know the answers to use artificial intelligence (AI) properly:
- What particular duties does AI carry out for legal professionals?
- How does AI operate, particularly the methods for creating, evaluating, and resolving legal problems?
- What ethical concerns arise after implementing into the legal field?
The List of Major Tasks AI Can Perform for Legal Professionals
Here is the list of particular tasks that AI tools can perform for legal professionals using their algorithms:
- Legal Research One of the most important things for legal professionals, which is the backbone of the legal industry and regarded as the most important skill that the legal fraternity personnel should have is research, which includes detailing and carefully studying case laws, documents, contracts, or any other thing to get relevant information at the conclusion. The process of research is complicated and time-consuming, but AI-powered tools may help professionals by assisting by giving relevant help with its automatic systematic findings. One of the major used such software in India is Manupatra. Not only this, AI tools help professionals analyze contracts and assist in identifying loopholes, hazards, gaps, or inconsistencies, resulting in the reduction of human error.
- Legal Predictions Legal professionals must adhere to the most significant thing—prediction—as sometimes professionals are not able to get all the clues, ‘risks’ or some other relevant information associated with the client or case, which may or may not be adhered to be important are oversights. Thus, to adhere to the same, AI may be useful in predicting such legal outcomes, which help them to prepare their case and make defensible choices. Not only to that limit, it also helps professionals by advising on making documents including pleading, briefs, and contracts.
- Compliance Monitoring The common factor that legal professionals should adhere to is regular updates regarding current and dynamic legislation, as it is required while making drafts, briefs, and arguments and also while dealing with client counseling.
To reduce the risk of non-compliance, AI can be used as it regularly monitors the dynamic legislation and makes the professional up to date with the current scenario as well as ensure compliances with legal requirements and thus leads to the improvement in productivity.
Understanding the operation of AI in performing legal tasks:
The most significant concern evolving about the implementation of AI in the legal field is how the function of Artificial Intelligence can handle all legal responsibilities. What are the fundamentals taken up by AI in the processing of outcomes? The article investigates such concerns and raises the theories that uphold the grounds of such findings.
AI uses advanced technology tools Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) to analyze vast amounts of legal data. Due to this, legal professionals can easily find insight with advent accuracy.
- Abnormalities Deduction: The basic thing for the operation of creating output is to identify the patterns and abnormalities in legal data, this is essential to find pertinent risks, trends, and precedents. This is done by its complex algorithms which allow professionals to negotiate better and reduce their liability exposure.
- Decision-Making and Responding Senses: The skill of predictive analytics of AI helps professionals predict case outcomes, evaluate litigation risk, and suggest the best legal strategy by evaluating past data and legal precedent. Based on such data, virtual chatboxes are created, which answer the maximum possible queries, respond to preliminary or basic inquiries by the clients, and assist professionals throughout the routine.
- Risk Management: One of the essential parts that should be taken in the operation of AI in the legal field is risk management. The algorithms of continuous supervising of regulatory changes in Artificial Intelligence help to manage proactive risk mitigation strategy and ensure all complement with legal requirements.
Raising Ethical Issues:
Hannah Fry has observed that “for all the positive impacts that AI may have on the criminal justice system, there will invariably be endless examples of unfairness engendered by algorithms”. An error will always be made by algorithms developed to imitate intelligence. The fact is there is no purpose or motive to act unfairly when used by legal professionals.
It is noteworthy to raise the demand for careful attention while implementing AI in law enforcement and legal decisions as ethical concerns are raised. To comprehend the concern more precisely, consider the following example:
If AI algorithms are being used by police for surveillance in an affected area by crime, the data provided for the operation of the generation of results includes the crime statistics, incident records, arrest records and community feedback. Algorithm that AI uses is proactive risk mitigation, which generates the results which conclude that the surveillance should be more strict in more affected areas rather than less affected areas or areas whose crime static report shows high in number. The chance of surveillance will be 9:1 (9 for the high-affected area to 1 for the low-affected area). But the concern is that AI according to data will mostly neglect less affected areas, which may raise a slight increase in crime rate in low-affected areas, so we cannot fully depend upon AI algorithms for the same.
Whereby, second concern is there is opacity in AI algorithm generation, as they are systematically generated and it is quite difficult for judges and police to understand such algorithms, so it may lack transparency in a fair trial because the understanding of such algorithms is crucial while decision making. Overall, as the set command, AI always upholds fairness and justice in its algorithm rather than compromising them.
Cross Border Judiciary Initiatives and Outcomes in AI Implementation in Legal Systems:
With the revolution of AI in technologies including legal fields, the judiciary is also taking an active part in this revolution throughout the globe. The judiciary has been aggressively integrating AI in its legal processing. Improvements have been made in cross-border legal procedures via cooperative efforts with other countries. The Indian judiciary has also consistently been a part of this race.
Some initiatives taken up by the Indian judiciary include the use of Supreme Court Vidhik Anuvaad Software (SUVAS), a step taken up by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India for translating judicial documents between English and regional language through AI. The United Kingdom is using AI-powered systems to augment judicial decision-making, ranging from risk assessment tools like COMPAS. Other nations like China and the USA are also using such tools in the legal field for speedy justice and contemporizing the maxim of “justice delayed is justice denied.”
The demand for AI in the judiciary is becoming a crucial demand in India. The judges are 21 judges per million in India, signifying the complicated and well-concerned selection of judges. However, due to this, vast number of cases are pending and continue to be pending. In a country like India, where there is a written law, the delivery of justice is even more delayed. So to depreciate such values, there is a need for AI in the judicial as well as legal field in India.
The limit of using AI must not exceed translation work only, but also using its algorithm to augment judicial decision-making and various legal work. Although there is no specific AI regulation in India, some regulations are covered in different acts, for example, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which consists of some provisions to safeguard individual rights by providing mechanisms for data inquiry and ensuring transparency in the data processing. An approach of such integration is appreciating the social and legal concerns, evaluating the depreciation of the number of small cases, and reshaping the role of legal professionals.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, the article shows the advantages and ethical concerns regarding the implementation of AI in the legal field. Notably, this integration not only provides accuracy, and efficiency, and assists in routine tasks but also improves access to justice, fairness, and possible bias.
With the rise of integration of technology into law service in Western countries, India is also actively taking part in such a revolution and modernizing the legal process as seen by its initiative to use SUVAS for document translation. Yet, the demand for regulation is also rising, and it is significant for legislation to make such a specific law for that. Also, collaborative efforts with global counterparts highlight this integration and create strong cross-border relations by making international partners for making such tools for integration.
A balanced approach is also appreciated for understanding its algorithms. Throughout, potential has been seen by AI to transform the legal profession by fostering relations between the legal fraternity and technology. With dedicated oversight, it can transform the role of legal sector workers. End Notes:
- Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach 1 (Pearson Education, 2010)
- Manupatra helps legal professionals to retrieve cases, statutes, and other documents from Manupatra’s vast library of legal and business materials
- Jackson T. & Dobbie S., AI and Legal Research: A Practical Guide 112 (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- Chen J. & Dhir A, Artificial Intelligence in Law and Legal Practice: A Comprehensive View of 35 Legal Activities 35(4) (AI & Society, 2020), pp. 887–897
- She is a British mathematician and an expert on computer science and human behaviour. She has identified numerous ethical issues raised by the use of AI for crime analysis in her book.
- Hannah Fry, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of the Machine, pp. 330–332 (New York: W.W. Norton, 2018)
- Manoj Meena & Aishvarya Joshi, AI Policing in Criminal Justice: Methods & Concerns in Crime Detection and Prevention in India 12(3) (NFSU Journal of Law & Artificial Intelligence, June 2023)
- Aditi Prabhu, Artificial Intelligence in the Context of the Indian Legal Profession and Judicial System, Bar and Bench (Aug 12, 2023, 01:00 PM), https://www.barandbench.com/columns/artificial-intelligence-in-context-of-legal-profession-andindian-judicial-system
- COMPAS, a computer-based algorithm that is currently being used in criminal cases to predict a defendant’s likelihood of reoffending.
- The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, No.25, Act of Parliament, 2023 (INDIA)
Written By:
- Prakhar Jain 3rd -Year student of the BA LL.B.- Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi
- Om Prakash Tiwari
