What Are the Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence Use in Legal Practice?

Artificial intelligence has long been a source of fascination. However, interest in the application of AI to legal services has spiked in recent years. The legal trade media has published a series of stories debating whether AI will end the legal profession as we know it, whether regulators should take steps to safeguard the public/the profession from this future, or whether regulators should take steps to facilitate its arrival on the scene.

With no definitive answer to these questions on the immediate horizon, AI technology continues to progress, and we step ever-closer to AI no longer being an academic issue, ...