Sotomayor Says AI Will Significantly Impact ‘How We Lawyer’

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said artificial intelligence will have a “huge” effect on the legal industry.

“It may not take over lawyering completely, but it is going to change a lot of ways of how we lawyer,” Sotomayor said Thursday when asked during the New York State Bar Association’s civics education convocation how the legal profession has changed since she began her career.

Sotomayor, speaking remotely to an audience in Albany, urged high school and college students at the convocation to not let technologies like AI “that will revolutionize our futures” pass them by.

Sotomayor’s ...