史上第一位机器人律师即将上岗

全球首位人工智能律师Ross最近得到了一份工作。

据科技新闻网站Futurism.com报道，美国最大的全球律师事务所之一Baker & Hostetler最近宣布，他们聘请了一名由ROSS Intelligence开发的机器人律师。Ross将会进入这家公司的破产业务部门工作，该部门目前已有近50位律师。

Ross采用了IBM的Watson系统。它能理解你的问题，根据参考文献和例证推测结论。它不会列出数千条结果让你筛选，而是提供相关程度最高的结果，从而提高法律研究的效率。此外，它会不断关注现有的诉讼，通知你法院近期可能与案件相关的判决结果。它还能从过往经历中学习，你与它互动越频繁，它就越能积累信息，运行速度也会更快。

Baker & Hostetler是第一家宣布聘用人工智能律师的公司。ROSS Intelligence的共同创始人和首席执行官安德鲁•阿鲁达表示，还有其他法律公司与Ross签署了使用许可，该公司很快会宣布更多签约消息。

对于需求优秀律师的人来说，这是个好消息，但它也加深了自动化技术取代人类员工的担忧。有些人认为这不是问题，因为从历史上看，随着科技的进步，工作岗位也会增加。但是人工智能是一个全新的领域，许多人担心今后的工作岗位并不会随着技术进步而增加。

译者：严匡正

Ross, the first artificially intelligent attorney, just got a job.

Global law firm Baker & Hostetler, one of the nation’s largest, recently announced that it has hired a robot lawyer created by ROSS Intelligence,Futurism reports. Ross will be employed in the law firm’s bankruptcy practice which currently employs close to 50 lawyers.

Ross was built on IBM’s IBM -0.07% Watson. It can understand your questions, and respond with a hypothesis backed by references and citations. It improves on legal research by providing you with only the most highly relevant answers rather than thousands of results you would need to sift through. Additionally, it is constantly monitoring current litigation so that it can notify you about recent court decisions that may affect your case, and it will continue to learn from experience, gaining more knowledge and operating more quickly, the more you interact with it.

Baker & Hostetler is just the first to make this announcement. According to Andrew Arruda, ROSS Intelligence co-founder and CEO, other law firms have signed licenses with Ross, and we can expect more announcements soon.

Though this could be welcome news for someone who needs a good lawyer, it may also fuel concerns that automation is replacing human employees.Some argue that this isn’t an issue because job availability has historically increased as technology advances, but artificial intelligence is a fairly new territory that many worry can put an end to that trend.