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Before replacing your lawyers with [[artificial intelligence]], consider the [[lawyer]]’s basic function: ''[[reading]]''.  However, this is all any contemporary artificial intelligence can do. Even a deep neural network.
Before replacing your lawyers with [[artificial intelligence]], consider the [[lawyer]]’s basic function: ''[[reading]]''.


Consider what “junior legal work” tends to comprise. Reading and interpretation of basic contracts: the paradigm case is the [[confidentiality agreement]]. It is a [[tedious]] low-value job. Just when sales are on the brink of a grand new conquest, the prospective client produces a confidentiality agreement. Sales is ready to go, but first thee [[legal eagle]]s must have their day. Cue a week or so of tedious, costly, back-and-forth, during which time ardours are in grave danger of dampening.
Consider what “junior legal work” tends to comprise. Reading and interpreting workaday legal contracts: the paradigm case being the [[confidentiality agreement]]. It is a [[tedious]], low-value job. Just when [[sales]] are on the brink of a grand new conquest, the prospective client fishes around in her handbag and produces an [[NDA]]. Sales is ready to go, but first thee [[legal eagle]]s must have their day. Cue a week or so of tedious, costly, back-and-forth, during which time ardours are in grave danger of dampening.


What to do? {{t|Policy}} says we must review the {{t|contract}}. But surely, in these [[AI|artificially intelligent]] times, there is a better way. Could not a hastily-commissioned [[chatbot]] handle this?
What to do? {{t|Policy}} says we must review the {{t|contract}}. But surely, in these [[AI|artificially intelligent]] times, there is a better way. Could not a hastily-commissioned [[chatbot]] handle this?

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