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13 March 2024
Issue: 8063 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Artificial intelligence
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Judges must get to grips with AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) is ‘unlikely to be optional’ for lawyers, and ‘judges will need to become just as familiar with the use of AI as any lawyer’, Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls, has said

Giving the keynote speech this week to Manchester Law Society’s AI Conference 2024, Sir Geoffrey illustrated his talk with AI-generated images including ‘DALL-E’s view of what it looks like when I sit in an AI-technology enabled court’.

Sir Geoffrey said liability for the use or non-use of AI would be a theme in many cases, and could be used by judges for ‘summarising complex material’ so long as confidentiality was respected. Moreover, he said: ‘AI is likely to be a valuable tool in the context of the digital justice system that is now being created.’

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