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‘A Library is a Growing Organism’: Redefining Artificial Intelligence and the Role of the Information Professional in the Corporate Legal World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 August 2022

Jake Hearn
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Abstract

This article, written by Jake Hearn, seeks to define and reevaluate artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of the corporate legal world. The article explores some of the opportunities on offer to information professionals to ensure that the profession continues to grow within the economic, cultural and professional context it is situated.

Keywords

legal information professionalsartificial intelligenceAI
Type
Legal Informatics
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , June 2022 , pp. 81 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Footnotes

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7 Ibid.

8 Ed Walters and Sean Tate, ‘Makers in the Library - the New Age of Hands-on Artificial Intelligence’ in Francesca Ramadan (ed) The Evolution of the Law Firm Library Function: Transformation and Integration into the Business of Law (ARK Publishing, 2018) 64.

9 Claire Greening, ‘The BIALL Law Firm Library Survey 2019/2020’ (2020) Legal Information Management 20(2) 67–73 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1472669620000171.

10 Ibid.

11 Dominique Garingan and Alison Jane Pickard, ‘Artificial Intelligence in Legal Practice: Exploring Theoretical Frameworks for Algorithmic Literacy in the Legal Information Profession’ (2021) Legal Information Management 21(2), 97-117. doi:10.1017/S1472669621000190 accessed 6 May 2022.

12 Ibid.

13 Amina Adadi and Mohammed Berrada, ‘Peeking Inside the Black-Box: a Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)’ (2018) IEEE Access, 6 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8466590 accessed 6 May 2022.

14 Ibid.

15 Jenna Burrell ‘How the Machine ‘Thinks’: Understanding Opacity in Machine Learning Algorithms’ (2016) Big Data & Society 3(1) https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951715622512 accessed 6 May 2022.

16 Ibid.

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18 Rob Mackinlay, ‘Interview: CJ Anderson – Maximum Innovation, Minimum Disruption’ (CILIP, 26 October 2018) https://www.cilip.org.uk/news/435003/Interview-CJ-Anderson-Maximum-innovation-minimum-disruption.htm accessed 6 May 2022.

19 Manuel Carabantes, Black-Box Artificial Intelligence: an Epistemological and Critical Analysis (2018) AI and Society 35 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-019-00888-w accessed 6 May 2022.

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