Jul. 21, 2020
Let’s be real about robo-lawyer lingo and right size those AI LegalTech catchphrases
Care needs to be exercised in making use of misleading wording about AI in the legal profession. Infamously, the terms “robo-lawyer” and “robot lawyer” seem to remain intact, though woefully are inarguably misaligned and falsely suggest the arrival of AI-based non-human lawyers.
Lance Eliot
Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.
Words matter.
In global news last week, a regional court in Munich overseeing trademark and competition law announced that it was upholding a complaint of unfair competition that had been leveled at Tesla Germany over the use of its "Autopilot" naming. The court indicated that "both the advertising message as a whole and the components separately attacked by the plaintiff are misleading commercial acts," and that "by using the term ...
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