Technology,
Law Practice
Sep. 9, 2021
Using AI for legal reconnaissance
Anyone immersed in the law knows that discretion is a cornerstone to our form of jurisprudence. Discretion is powerful. It can also be exploited for discriminatory outcomes. AI can be used as a tool for legal reconnaissance to explore and hopefully discover the use of discretion that has overstepped into the foul folds of unfairness and inequity.
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.
Discretion is a rather important word in the law.
Rather than having a cookie-cutter approach to the nature of our laws and concretely instilling strictly stipulated associated penalties, we instead lean toward a dollop of discretion. You can trace this form of legal wiggle room to some of the earliest underpinnings of how our laws came to be.
For example, in a famous U.S. Supreme Court case involving the death ...
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