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Sensei Officers Featured In Minnesota Lawyer

April 16, 2020

The Minnesota Lawyer recently featured an article by Sharon Nelson and John Simek titled “Artificial intelligence and ethical responsibility”.

 Excerpt:

BALTIMORE — Can a computer review a contract, conduct legal research or even write a brief?

Legal services companies advertise a variety of programs marketed as artificial intelligence to make attorneys’ work easier and faster, but the boom in so-called AI has not been accompanied by robust ethics considerations. The American Bar Association adopted a resolution last summer that “urges courts and lawyers to address the emerging ethical and legal issues related to the usage of artificial intelligence (‘AI’) in the practice of law.”

Sharon D. Nelson, an attorney and the president of Sensei Enterprises Inc. in Fairfax, Virginia, said discussions need to address bias in programs and technology, as well as the responsibility of attorneys who use the technology.

“I think there is almost no sector of the legal industry that does not want to come up with some sort of standard for ethical AI,” Nelson said. ”I think what we’re doing is synthesizing the work of others and saying, as it applies to the practice of law, ‘Here are the things we need to address before we develop a more robust code of conduct.’”

One of attorneys’ major ethical duties related to technology is knowing what it is capable of doing before using it on behalf of clients, according to Frank Pasquale, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.

“My sense is that much of what is marketed as artificial intelligence is, in fact, very incremental improvements on already familiar technology,” he said.

Read the entire article here.