| |December 20199Artificial Intelligence cannot replace the lawyers as advocacy is a matter of emotions and human empathy, however technology can augment lawyers' capabilities and make the work of lawyers more efficient Denning, `the English language is not an instrument of mathemati-cal precision' should be noted. Due to this imperfection, legal loopholes remain wide open. With colorable interpretation devoid of legal princi-ples, society remains exposed to grave financial crimes, disgorging massive public wealth, playing `catch me if you can' with law enforcement agen-cies, among others.As technology is used to commit more sophisticated crimes, law en-forcement officers and those in the le-gal system are increasingly using tech tools to combat crime. To keep the public safe and protect human life, it's important that the criminal justice industry use cutting-edge software, tracking systems, and more.Last year, the New Devises Group of Intel (a semiconductor manufac-turer), teased the public with Vaunt - a smart glass embedded with gesture based artificial intelligence (AI). To much fanfare, sections of the media reported the tech to be picked right out of the Steven Spielberg's cyber-punk fiction thriller ­ Minority Re-port, showcasing its gesture based interface used by the lead character, Tom Cruise. With 6 predictions from the movie arguably coming true over the last 15 years, it is much to one's imagination on how far AI can take the human race. The protagonist in the movie, a law enforcement agent, realizes the personal cost inflicted by the flaws in such law enforcement technology. Therefore, the ques-tion remains: AI at what cost? Over dependencies on robots, and tools based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, could result into unforeseen consequences - as some of these tools would use "Unsupervised Machine Leaning" and can come up with bias, resulting in multiple moral or ethical issues.The twin financial market regula-tors, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have quite a contrasting mechanism to law enforcement. While for the securities market, the function of rule-making and administration of rules are separated from the judicial function, the other financial markets predominately rely on RBI as the rule maker, enforcement agency and quasi-judicial body. Effective functioning of the financial markets is theoretically premised on a strong friction between these three functions, outputting bet-ter laws, smarter enforcement mecha-nisms and quicker/precise orders - law enforcement being at the heart of them. SEBI while participating in a panel discussion on "Technology in Financial Services" at Singapore in November, 2019 mentioned that "newly emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine learning (ML), deep learning, etc., are being used in Indian capital markets in areas like Robo advisory services, sur-veillance through social media analyt-ics, IT security, etc."Bots, Blockchain and AI (BBAI as we will call it) is an instrument to track and report mischief by ena-bling early detention by regulators seeking to sandbox loopholes before vulgar sums of wealth are disgorged. Intel's Pohoiki Beach, a 64-Chip Neuromorphic System, has been reported to deliver breakthrough re-sults in research tests. It is not afar that breakthrough semiconductors will provide the computing power that BBAI command for live data processing, if not already existing.However, the path for smarter law enforcement is riddled with the loopholes as the trigonometry of the English language. BBAI may not be able to tell the difference between data protection, privacy protection and personal data protection laws and the frameworks each of them present. As of today BBAI is poten-tially in breach privacy of the pro-tection law, left right and center. The `whatsapp-pegasus' fiasco has thrown open the "privacy protection versus state surveillance" debate. A data-basing technology giant has dragged a law enforcement technol-ogy provider to the doors of another law enforcement agency.This is just the beginning. The implementation of AI technology may reach new heights in the legal sector. AI is also aimed at predict-ing the possible outcome of litiga-tion to help the lawyer in providing an adequate solution to their clients. Law is ever changing, but so is tech-nology. The role of legal technol-ogy is in assisting the lawyers and law enforcing agencies. At times, it has been debated that someday AI technology might replace a lawyer. However in my view, Artificial In-telligence cannot replace the lawyers as advocacy is a matter of emotions and human empathy, however tech-nology can augment lawyers' capa-bilities and make the work of lawyers more efficient.
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