Balancing the scale: navigating ethical and practical challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) integration in legal practices

Zafar, Ammar ORCID: 0009-0008-0367-8139 (2024) Balancing the scale: navigating ethical and practical challenges of artificial intelligence (AI) integration in legal practices. Discover Artificial Intelligence, 4 (1). 27-.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s44163-024-00121-8

Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The paper explores the integration of artificial intelligence in legal practice, discussing the ethical and practical issues that arise and how it affects customary legal procedures. It emphasises the shift from labour-intensive legal practice to technology-enhanced methods, with a focus on artificial intelligence's potential to improve access to legal services and streamline legal procedures. This discussion importantly highlights the ethical challenges introduced by the integration of Artificial Intelligence, with a specific focus on issues of bias and transparency. These ethical concerns become particularly paramount in the context of sensitive legal areas, including but not limited to, child custody disputes, criminal justice, and divorce settlements. It underscores the critical need for maintaining ethical vigilance, advocating for developing and implementing AI systems characterised by a profound commitment to ethical integrity. This approach is vital to guarantee fairness and uphold transparency across all judicial proceedings. The study advocates for a "human in the loop" strategy that combines human knowledge and AI techniques to mitigate biases and guarantee individualised legal results to ensure AI functions as a complement rather than a replacement, the paper concludes by emphasising the necessity of preserving the human element in legal practices.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	8 Health and social care services research, 8.3 Policy, ethics, and research governance, Generic health relevance, 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Law and Social Justice
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	18 Apr 2024 10:55
Last Modified:	07 May 2024 14:05
DOI:	10.1007/s44163-024-00121-8
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1007/s44163-024-00121-8
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3180432