Legal Futures report,
Clients are now more scared of robots handling their work than lawyers are of losing their jobs to machines, the boss of a legal artificial intelligence (AI) business has said.
Dr Ruth Angus, chief operating officer of Luminance, told this week’s Artificial Intelligence in Legal Services Summit in London that things “started to change” in the last year, with lower levels of fear among lawyers that their judgement would be replaced by robots.
Luminance, founded in 2016 by mathematicians and engineers from Cambridge University, describes itself as a “flexible platform” to help law firms and in-house teams manage their workload.
Dr Angus, who joined Luminance last year and has a PhD in neuroscience, said the company used machine learning to tackle due diligence in mergers and acquisitions, and was planning to expand into property, compliance and e-discovery.
She said there had been “a lot of scaremongering” about robot lawyers, but “instead of becoming robots”, lawyers could use AI to strengthen their position, turning work around more quickly and getting reliable answers from a vast amount of data.
She said machine learning was not being used by Luminance to replace the judgement of lawyers but to help them get where they wanted.
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