On 21 June, the Law Society hosted a conference on the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in law.

1. Robots and lawyers:
partnership of the future
Tuesday 21 June
#RobotsAndLawyers
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2. Jonathan Smithers
President, The Law Society

3. Jonathan Smithers, President
@lawsocpresident
Robots and lawyers bound
by the rule of law

4. 1. Scene setting

5. Are you
human?

6. When did
you become
you?
From: Who am I? Wellcome wing - Science museum

7. Can you be
rebuilt?
From: Who am I? Wellcome wing - Science museum

8. From IStock by Getty Images
http://www.bjj.boneandjoint.org.uk/content/88-B/9/1257

9. The Guardian, 6 June 2016.

10. www.chainimage.com

11. Are you still
you?
From: Who am I? Wellcome wing - Science museum

12. Perhaps, we are
becoming more
than human

13. 2. The changing
nature of the Law

14. Women in the law

15. Non-humans in the law
• Corporate personality and dates from
1897
•Salomon v Salomon
& Co Ltd
•Corporate Manslaughter
Act 2007

16. Non-humans in the law
http://www.newzealand.com/int/whanganui/
From: The Washington Post 22/04/2015

17. 3. Artificial
Intelligence and the
Law

18. ‘Should there be a new
category to describe robots, similar
to other legal categories such as
natural persons, legal persons,
animals or objects?’
European Parliament

19. Effects of its use
 Chatbots
 Drones
 Bitcoin
 Driverless cars
http://www.stockfreeimages.com/p1/drone.html

20.  What legal responsibility arises from a robot’s
harmful actions?
 What will the effect of a robot developing
autonomous and cognitive features be?
 How can a machine be held responsible –
wholly or partly – for its acts or omissions?

22. The law is adapting,
transforming and
evolving.

23. Machine learning technology
and AI may not strictly be
human, but its uses,
its applications and its results
must still be subject to the rule
of law.

24. Lawyers and robots need to work together as partners for the future.Lawyers and robots need to work together as partners for the future.
Lawyers and robots need to
work together as partners for
the future.

25. Jonathan Smithers, President
@lawsocpresident
Thank you

26. Dale Lane
Developer, IBM Watson

27. State of the art in AI
Dale Lane
@dalelane

29. Of the four countries in the
world that the United
States does not have
diplomatic relations with,
which one is furthest north?

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Good afternoon. God bless you.
The United States will step up to the cost of a new challenges
of the American people that will share the fact that we created
the problem. They were attacked and so that they have to say
that all the task of the final days of war that I will not be able
to get this done. The promise of the men and women who
were still going to take out the fact that the American people
have fought to make sure that they have to be able to protect
our part. It was a chance to stand together to completely look
for the commitment to borrow from the American people. And
the fact is the men and women in uniform and the millions of
our country with the law system that we should be a strong
stretcks of the forces that we can afford to increase our spirit
of the American people and the leadership of our country who
are on the Internet of American lives.
Thank you very much. God bless you, and God bless the
United States of America.

41. https://twitter.com/_pandy/status/689209034143084547

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48. State of the art in AI
Dale Lane
@dalelane

49. Professor Andy Wright
Director Strategic Technology,
BAE Systems

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Copyright © 2016 Rio Tinto

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54. Peter Wright
Solicitor and Managing Director,
DigitalLawUK
http://www.digitallawuk.com/robots-lawyers-partnership-future/

55. Professor Katie Atkinson
Head of the department of
Computer Science, University of
Liverpool

56. Developments in Research on
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Prof. Katie Atkinson
Department of Computer Science,
University of Liverpool, UK.
Email: katie@liverpool.ac.uk
Web page: http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~katie
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57. AI and Law is a hot topic of research
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“Expert Systems in Law: Out of the
Research Laboratory and into the
Marketplace”
“The Application of Expert Systems
Technology to Case-Based Law”
“Logic Programming for Large
Scale Applications in Law”
First International
Conference on AI
and Law (ICAIL)
1987

58. Topics AI and Law researchers are
interested in
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59. Some research topics in AI and Law
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Computational
argumentation
Natural language processing
Machine learning
P ^ Q => R
~Q v R <=> ~P
Knowledge representation
Data visualisation

60. How does this all apply to real world
problems?
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E-discovery support
Decision
support
tools
Contract management
Processing
big data

61. Where to find out more
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International
Association for AI and
Law: www.iaail.org
International
Conference on AI
and Law (ICAIL)
LinkedIn Group: “International
Association for Artificial
Intelligence and Law”

62. Questions and answers