AI & Law: Autonomous Levels of AI Legal Reasoning

Introducing the seven autonomous levels of AI legal reasoning

by Dr. Lance B. Eliot

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Key briefing points about this article:

• A misleading media portrayal about AI is that all AI is presumptively the same (it is not)
• There are various Levels of Autonomy (LoA) associated with AI, proffering increasing capacities
• A new approach to LoA for AI-based Legal Reasoning systems has been gaining attention
• AI Legal Reasoning (AILR) is ranked into seven distinct categories of autonomous capability
• This provides a handy means to compare AI & Law products and LegalTech offerings

Introduction

AI is increasingly being applied to the field of law and the legal industry, including that many LegalTech providers are inexorably augmenting their wares via advances in Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Unfortunately, it is difficult for legal professionals to readily discern what value these AI improvements add. The vendors are apt to…