AI lawyer gets a job at a real law firm

The world’s first AI attorney, Ross, has secured a job at a real law firm.

Baker & Hostetler, who hires almost 50 human lawyers as part of its bankruptcy practice, has taken on IBM’s Ross. The AI will assist Baker & Hostetler’s lawyers by making it quicker to find law-based answers.

IBM explains that people can ask Ross questions in plain English, as they would a colleague, and then Ross “reads through the entire body of law and returns a cited answer and topical readings from legislation, case law and secondary sources to get you up-to-speed quickly.”