Translators are needed to shepherd legal AI adoption through repeated iterations

Evidence

Translators also will play a key role during implementation, studying the workflow to diagnose and troubleshoot problems that arise. Fully integrating transformative legal technology into an office’s processes is a long journey. Machine learning and other techniques that comprise legal technology are more art than science. Successful legal technology requires experimentation, and it is certainly the case that early models will not perform optimally. It also is the case that, once a model is working well, attorneys will struggle to use it properly. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1198

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘bias in the law’ theme and the Loomis/COMPAS case discussed in Chapter 8 — the translator role is a proposed remedy to the COMPAS opacity problem.