In this Bloomberg article ‘This AI Startup Generates Legal Papers Without Lawyers, and Suggests a Ruling‘, the operation of an Argentinian start-up, Prometea is described. It uses AI to produce suggested rulings from past decisions, thus increasing dramatically the productivity and reducing the backlog of cases.
The productivity boost is significant: “The Buenos Aires office says its 15 lawyers can now clear what used to be six months’ worth of cases in just six weeks.”
At the moment it only produces drafts that are still reviewed by humans, but the results are apparently very encouraging, and many countries seem to be interested by the system, including the UN.
Predictive justice is coming, at least for simple cases. Our judicial systems will certain try to resist, but that’s the trend of history.
