Brain chip: A revolutionary step to provide better, faster and cheaper lawyers
A report by the Law Society, a professional organization of lawyers in the UK, said that a computer chip could be implanted in the brains of lawyers, which could reduce case costs and reduce the number of lawyers to solve complex cases. I will be required.
This will be a revolutionary step in the field of law.
The report, ‘Neurotechnology, Law and the Legal Profession’, was compiled by Dr Alan McKay at the request of the Law Society of England and Wales.
In this report, Dr. McKay, associated with the Law School of the University of Sydney, Australia, discusses the potential benefits of using artificial intelligence in the legal profession or the field of law.
Proponents of introducing neurotechnology for lawyers argue that corporate clients or business clients will push for such a chip, saying it improves performance.
As a result, lawyers who charge £1,500 an hour will have to charge their fees in terms of ‘billable units of attention’, i.e. the time they actually spent working on or thinking about a case. How much time have I spent? As if they will be paid according to a brain-connected meter instead of time on a clock.
The Law Society, which is responsible for the professional affairs of lawyers in England and Wales, said in a recently published report that such a brain chip or implant would be the ‘iPhone of the future’ for the legal sector.
There will be no need for a large team of lawyers to deal with complex cases, but a super lawyer with a chip will be able to sift through thousands of documents and details related to various aspects of the case in a very short time and formulate its main points and arguments.
Hourly attorney fees have been a long-standing issue. Although multinational companies bear the high fees of lawyers as part of business, the reduction of legal costs with the help of technology will surely be attractive to the top executives of these companies.
The law society says lawyers will want to take advantage of artificial intelligence by using neurotechnology to offer better services and gain an edge over their competitors.
According to the report, pressure to adopt new technology will come from clients. One can imagine the changes that technology capable of accounting for attention can bring. In this way, instead of an hourly fee, a fee will be charged per attention period.
Dr. McKay says that Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been investing in neurotechnology for the past eight years. He said that these technologies are coming, we have to think about its rules and regulations.
Lawyer and author Richard Susskind says the use of artificial intelligence will grow rapidly, and some AI systems have already outperformed junior lawyers in certain tasks, such as reviewing documents. He said that ‘going forward, the digital performance of all of us will increase. The only question is whether this processing and storage will be inside or outside our body.