Source: Mirage News
A growing number of AI tools are being developed for the legal sector, to help professionals search lengthy texts or check court rulings. Leiden SAILS researcher Masha Medvedeva, an expert on the technical development of these systems, warns: ‘Users should know what’s under the hood.’
“Legal search tools, for instance, have been around for a very long time and have been done pretty well. But in their search results, they can omit certain things, rank your search results in different manners and so on. So if you’re a law professional using these systems, you should at least have some sort of understanding of how they work to a degree that you can make decisions of whether to rely on certain tools or not.”
“In my experience, developers who build these systems often have little understanding of the sector they’re developing for. This was also one of the findings in my PhD research on the development of systems that predict court decisions. Furthermore, tools often never properly evaluated on data”
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