Category Archives: Automation and Artificial Intelligence

Thomas H. Davenport and Jeanne G. Harris, Automated Decision Making Comes of Age (2005).

The authors note that the long-awaited promise of automated decision-making systems has finally become a reality in a variety of industries. Innovations primarily in the ease of integration of automated decision-making systems have finally made implementation of such systems feasible. … Continue reading

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Cass Sunstein, Of Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning (2001).

Cass Sunstein discusses some limits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in 2001. Sunstein contends that AI in 2001 could not reason by analogy, as such technology could not identify the normative principles that link separate cases. AI technology of the … Continue reading

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Edwina Rissland, Artificial Intelligence and Law: Stepping Stones to a Model of Legal Reasoning (1990).

Edwina Rissland discusses developments in the interdisciplinary field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the law.  AI technology, combined the structured models of legal argument, can enable lawyers to view patterns in legal reasoning from new and innovative perspectives. Rissland proposes … Continue reading

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