Your robot lawyer will see you now: two AIs negotiated a contract for the first time – without a human involved

Cold, calculating and robotic: lawyers of the future may live up to their exaggerated reputation as AI takes over the legal profession.

For the first time, two AIs created by law firm Luminance have successfully negotiated a contract without any human intervention.

The AIs went back and forth over the details of a real non-disclosure agreement between the company and proSapient, one of Luminance’s customers.

The contract was completed within minutes and the only time a human was needed was to sign.

This stunning demonstration comes just a week after Elon Musk predicted that AI would eventually create a jobless utopia where no one has to work.

Speaking to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Bletchley Park AI Summit, Musk said AI would be the most disruptive force in the history of labor and would ultimately eliminate the need for people to have jobs.

“There will come a point where a job is no longer needed,” Musk said at the summit.

“You can have a job if you want to have a job for personal satisfaction, but the AI ​​can do anything.”

While automation has historically replaced physical repetitive labor, Luminance’s legal AI shows that even lawyers and other intellectual professions are not safe.

At the event in Luminance’s London office, the AIs independently read and analyzed the contract before proposing changes and making changes.

Trained on a dataset of more than 150 million legal documents, the AI ​​can understand areas of legal risk and learn from previous contracts.

For example, the non-disclosure agreement originally suggested a six-year contract.

But Luminance’s AI recognized that this was against company policy and automatically rewrote it to a three-year term instead.

Luminance’s legal AI automatically flags “red flags” in contracts and suggests changes that better fit company policy

Nick Emmerson, president of the Law Society, told MailOnline: ‘At this time and probably for the foreseeable future, AI will not be able to fully replace the function of legal expertise held by legally qualified professionals.’

He explained that this is because customers “have different needs and vulnerabilities that a machine cannot yet master and human judgment is needed to ensure that automated decisions do not result in potential false positives.”

“There is also an art to negotiation and ultimate bargaining that AI is unlikely to master,” he added.

Jaeger Glucina, chief of staff and MD at Luminance, agrees that the technology is not intended to replace lawyers, but rather to support them to work better.

“AI represents a new, more efficient chapter in the future of legal work and one that could change the game forever,” she said.

‘By putting the daily negotiations in the hands of an AI that is legally trained and understands your business, we give lawyers the freedom to focus their creativity where it counts.’

With legal teams spending up to 80 percent of their time reviewing routine documents, Luminance says these tools will free lawyers to focus on more important issues.

A week after Musk’s prediction that AI would eliminate the need for work, this development shows that even intellectual work such as legal counsel is not safe from automation

Contract negotiations, and especially non-disclosure agreements, can be an extremely time-consuming process because the contract must go back and forth between different teams.

Connagh McCormick, general counsel of proSapient, says the new technology will “accelerate the negotiation process, accelerate time to signing and ultimately increase company-wide efficiency.”

Although the process itself is fully automated, the AI ​​records the changes made at each stage, allowing a human to oversee the entire process.

Just as AI has been implemented for computer programmers, Lumina envisions that the AI ​​will function as a “co-pilot” for lawyers rather than operating independently.

Integrating AI into a legal environment is particularly challenging due to the high risks associated with an error.

Mr Emmerson also warns that there is a risk that legal responsibility for errors will become unclear as AI becomes more widely used.

Earlier this year, a New York City attorney was thrown out of court after admitting that he used false information from ChatGPT in his investigation.

Steven Schwartz submitted a ten-page letter detailing at least six completely fictional cases.

The world’s first robot lawyer also found himself in legal trouble after being sued for not having a law degree.

AI-powered app DoNotPay is facing accusations that it is “disguising itself as a licensed practitioner” in a class action lawsuit filed by US law firm Edelson.

However, DoNotPay’s founder Joshua Browder says the claims have “no merit whatsoever.”

A TIMELINE OF ELON MUSK’S COMMENTS ON AI

Musk has long been a very vocal condemner of AI technology and the precautions humans need to take

Elon Musk is one of the most prominent names and faces in the development of technologies.

The billionaire entrepreneur runs SpaceX, Tesla and the Boring company.

But while he is at the forefront of creating AI technologies, he is also acutely aware of their dangers.

Here’s a comprehensive timeline of all of Musk’s hunches, thoughts, and warnings about AI so far.

August 2014 – ‘We have to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons.”

October 2014 – ‘I think we have to be very careful with artificial intelligence. If I had to guess what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably this. So we have to be very careful with artificial intelligence.’

October 2014 – ‘With artificial intelligence we summon the demon.’

June 2016 – ‘The favorable situation with ultra-intelligent AI is that we are so far behind in intelligence that we would be like a pet or a house cat.’

July 2017 – ‘I think AI is something that is risky at a civilization level, not just at an individual risk level, and so it really requires a lot of security research.’

July 2017 – ‘I’m introduced to the latest AI and I think people should really be concerned about that.’

July 2017 – ‘I keep sounding the alarm, but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react because it seems so ethereal.’

August 2017 – ‘If you don’t worry about the safety of AI, you should. Much more risk than North Korea.’

November 2017 – ‘Maybe there is a five to ten percent chance of success (making AI safe)’.

March 2018 – ‘AI is much more dangerous than nuclear weapons. So why don’t we have regulatory oversight?’

April 2018 – ‘(AI is) a very important topic. It’s going to impact our lives in ways we can’t even imagine yet.”

April 2018 – ‘(We could create) an immortal dictator from which we would never escape.’

November 2018 – ‘Maybe AI will make me follow it, laugh like a demon and say who’s the pet now.’

September 2019 – ‘If advanced AI (besides basic bots) is not applied to manipulate social media, it will not be long before it is.’

February 2020 – ‘At Tesla, using AI to solve self-driving isn’t just the icing on the cake, it’s the cake.’

July 2020 – ‘We are moving towards a situation where AI is much smarter than humans and I think that time frame is less than five years. But that doesn’t mean everything will go to hell in five years. It just means things get unstable or weird.”

April 2021: ‘A large part of real AI needs to be solved to enable unattended, generalized full self-driving work.’

February 2022: ‘We need to solve a large part of the AI ​​to make cars drive themselves.’

December 2022: ‘The danger of training AI to wake up – i.e. to lie – is deadly.’