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Criminal

Jun. 26, 2019

Can a robot be a successful district attorney?

Artificial intelligence is all the rage. We constantly hear about it in one form or another. Automation. Big data. Machine learning. Autonomous vehicles. But let’s make this personal: Will AI affect lawyers? Replace us?

Stephen E. Henderson

Judge Haskell A. Holloman Professor of Law
University of Oklahoma

Stephen teaches, writes and lectures on criminal law and procedure, including the constitutional restraints thereon, and is the author of several books and dozens of scholarly articles.

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Can a robot be a successful district attorney?
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Artificial intelligence -- AI -- is all the rage. We constantly hear about it in one form or another. Automation. Big data. Machine learning. Autonomous vehicles.

But let's make this personal: Will AI affect lawyers? Replace us?

Today we are pitched "AI legal research" that hardly seems impressive, but progress is sustained. Like everyone, we react with equal measures of awe and trepidation when Goo...

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