Artificial Intelligent Lawyers Should Be Free - Clyde Hays

Lady Justice, Equality in Law

I'm currently working on a emotional machine learning AI named Edda, great grandmother, she networks with multiple family members and tailors her responses with their shared history/cultural/values. Edda's isn't unique in her base, she is unique in her function. Her function being to respond to her specific users with a cultural/historical response and share that knowledge tree among family members. We are still in the training/testing/learning phase with Edda, but my job at Hays Division is coming up with the big ideas and seeing how we can make them possible today, so though I might be programming a logic tree in python my mind is still thinking of avenues and possibilities on numerous projects and ideas.

One avenue that pieced itself together for a spin off of Edda's base code was a AI Lawyer. Think of it like this, you pull in all the legal history, statutes, codes and case law, and the bot computes questions or statements like it would with emotion. Telling you avenues for legal defense and offense, or if your avenue will come into conflict with codes or statues. I thought it might be a good public service to offer for free to show case our AI abilities.

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I did some research and of course a AI Lawyer is already working. Multiple AI Lawyers in fact. Then I noticed all current AI Lawyers are all being sold to the big law firms to cut there overhead. These were not actual AI Lawyers but Lawyer Automation with monthly subscriptions.

To me, and I will tell you I am all about capitalisms, but to me a AI Lawyer should be free and available to all people. Just like the law should be open and viewable by all people. Our justice system is built on the equality and fairness of our courts, and AI Lawyers should be as well. If you are poor and need legal advice you should have the same access to the law as if you are wealthy. This has never happened in our time. We all know that wealthy individuals and corporations have a greater chance with the law than less wealthy individuals and businesses. Not because the law is biased, but because of resources and knowledge. A AI Lawyer can and does have a greater knowledge of the law than any human lawyer.

I am not suggesting that a AI Lawyer be a trial lawyer or even take the place of a lawyer in your defense. I am suggesting that AI Lawyers do the background, merits, risk analyses, case law, research and initial preceding's. This is all quantize data, not judgmental data and AI's can do this easily.

I know companies have to recoup cost. I understand market demand. I also understand opensource and resources, and this resource needs to be free and available. It could be a government entity that host and builds the AI Lawyer, it could be a non-profit so everyone feels it does not have strings attached, but this needs to be done and freely available.

How hard would it be to create a AI Lawyer? From my experience with Edda not hard at all. Not with the current status of machine learning. When you are creating a machine learning bot you have some main functions to build, natural language processing, machine vision, a knowledge base, the rules and data structures, and a user interface. Once you create all of this you train it and it learns based off the data trees and knows how it will respond to most types of queries. The user responds via the user interface and the AI replies. This is of course a very simplified overview, but the knowledge base and data structures are there. They are the laws and statues on the books. They are not proprietary, they are our laws.

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We all talk about the struggles for AI adoption, creating bots and user interfaces that will bridge a divide between machines and humans, to me giving people a AI Lawyer who's whole job is to defend them is one giant step to achieving this adoption.

It is not my goal at this time to create a AI Lawyer. I do not have experience in the legal field. I do not have connections in the legal field. I do have connections in the machine learning and AI fields. To me this is my wake up. I think we need a free and open AI Lawyer. I think one of the big corporations should spin off some resources, or our justice department should allocate some funds, and give we the people equal rights to representation via Artificial Intelligence. It will only take one high ranking politician or one senior executive to make this happen by seeing the justice in it.

I welcome your thoughts and feedback. I posted this initial thought to a sub-reddit on AI and got a lot of feed back. See Here. I of course have included this idea into our scope on the Edda project, though I honestly think this should be done by the Justice Department or a Non-Profit if you have connections you think might see this come forward share this with them or send me there contact information.