Law & Legal Studies

AI, the New-Age Lawyer: Industry 5.0 and Sustainable Development in Legal Practice

AI, the New-Age Lawyer: Industry 5.0 and Sustainable Development in Legal Practice

The chapter recommends a cautious approach to including AI in law.

Authors

Vani Singhal, Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.

Sehar Sethi, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.

Piyush Pranjal, Associate Professor of Practice (Management), Jindal Global Law School, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India.

Summary

Industry 5.0 seeks to add smart machines, bots, and algorithms working alongside humans with sustainability goals concerning human, environmental, and social aspects. The legal world is no exception to Industry 5.0. New-age technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, internet of things, and cloud computing are making headway into Law.

AI is of particular significance as it disrupts the field in multiple ways. It is worth inquiring whether AI is the new-age lawyer.

The present chapter seeks to unpack this question in the Indian context by examining AI applications in Law, the dark side of such applications, human-AI interactions, the challenges, and potential solutions of a paradigm shift from machine learning to deep learning-based AI, the impact on sustainable development goals, and the outlook of the Indian Judiciary towards inclusion of new-age technologies. The chapter concludes by advising a cautious approach to including AI in law.

Published in: Powering Industry 5.0 and Sustainable Development Through Innovation

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