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As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'

150 points · 162 comments · mooreds

mullingitover · 1790563950 · focus · HN ↗
I’m just waiting for the AI judgments, followed by the flash trials, followed by the flash litigation DDOS attacks.
1. RachelF · 1790566022 · focus · HN ↗
  Australia already has AI tax judgements:
  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme
  1. echoangle · 1790574106 · focus · HN ↗
    Doesn’t really sound like AI to me, more like subtracting two numbers from a government database and invoicing the difference. Was there anything done that would be classified as AI?
  2. plantain · 1790577197 · focus · HN ↗
    Hard to call it "AI".
    It simply put the onus of proof on the taxpayer for historical discrepancies, where the proof often no longer existed, for a subset of the population least able to navigate bureaucracy when those discrepancies were innocuous.
    There was no intelligence involved at any level of assessment.

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