AI rules from the bench

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2917, 2013, pág. 20
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Hodson talks about the application of artificial intelligence to the legal world. Software tools are already important in the legal world, especially for big cases like company mergers, where algorithms help people comb through vast piles of documents. But the application of artificial intelligence to the law promises to go beyond document mining. It aims to let automated systems handle arguments where the logic is not clear. The first signs of this are starting to appear. Last year, Tom Gordon of the Fraunhofer Institute in Munich partnered with German company Init to start developing an Al application called Elterngeld--German for "parent's money". It is designed to make automatic decisions on child benefit claims to the country's Federal Employment Agency (FEA), probably with some human auditing of its decisions behind the scenes, Gordon says.