Artificial intelligence won’t mean the end of the legal industry (or world) as we know it. But neither will it create utopia where new heights of insight and efficiency close the access to justice gap and take much of the guesswork out of the legal profession. The reality of AI’s future, and present, is far more ambiguous and complicated than that.

At the “Emerging Technologies in Litigation” at New York State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting, local and federal judges, an e-discovery researcher and an emerging technology attorney came together to discuss the way AI is, and likely will be, used in today’s courtrooms.