In an article for Slate, Madeleine Clare Elish highlights a study by Prof. Frank Levy that found that only certain tasks in the field of law could be automated. Levy and his colleagues found that “dramatic impacts are unlikely due to technical limitations of machine intelligence as well as social expectations of a lawyer’s value.”
Research co-authored by Prof. Frank Levy in DUSP examined the efficiency of robotic legal assistants. “They concluded that only about 13 percent of legal work will be taken over by computers within the next five years,” writes Aviva Rutkin for New Scientist.
Ray Brescia writes for The Huffington Post about a new paper co-authored by Prof. Frank Levy that examines the impact of automation on lawyers. The research suggests that, “at the core of what we value the most about the practice of law are things that lawyers can do better than computers.”