Die erste Konferenz der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Rechtslinguistik (ÖGRL) trug den Titel „Contemporary Approaches to Legal Linguistics“ und fand vom 8.11.2019 bis 10.11.2019 an der Universität Wien statt.

Prof Piska nahm als Keynote Speaker mit dem Titel „AI and the Robot Lawyer - TechReg and Smart Regulation“ daran teil.

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Folgend sein Abstract:

Movies and TV series give us the impression that lawyers spend their days in court shouting ‘Objection!’ and making impassioned speeches. Yet most everyday lawyers spend their time going over endless files, looking for precedents, loopholes and tiny pieces of potentially relevant information. This is exactly where Artificial Intelligence can and will step in, by analysing big data, proposing legal solutions and predicting judicial decisions. But it does not stop there, AI gets better through machine learning with every dataset it processes and every case it sees, whereas lawyers rely on the strenuous method of acquiring knowledge described above.

The first time in history ever since the industrial revolution where machines started taking over manual labour, we see that technology excels humans in tasks that require a substantial amount of cognitive ability. Cognitive ability hereby not only meaning performing repetitive tasks, but actual decision-making competences.

In perfect awareness of this very potential, academia has discussed handing over democratic decision-making processes and court rulings to AI, thereby putting a big question mark over our modern understanding of democracy and the rule of law. On the downside, such a disruptive technology, furthermore, has the potential to render a big chunk of human professions useless or respectively not efficient when compared with machines.

Even if one assumes AI can never fully take over the work of a legal mind, no one can deny it seriously challenges the role of modern lawyers and will certainly change it.