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Technology,
Law Practice

Jun. 22, 2021

Standards are profoundly needed for LegalTech and AI to liftoff

It is appropriate to assert that standards make the world go round, especially when considering the impact that standards have had on the advent of worldwide shipping. The legal field also needs standards. There are nascent standards for legal data and LegalTech, plus we need to stretch further and aim for standards to empower the emergence of AI Legal Reasoning (AILR) systems.

Lance Eliot

Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.

Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.

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Sometimes we don't give standards the due respect that they richly deserve.

You might even say that standards are what makes the world go round. In fact, come to think of it, the primary reason that we have such efficient and effective worldwide shipping today can be attributed to the advent of a very important and altogether seemingly simple standard. That standard has to do with the size of shipping containers.

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