{"id":10684,"date":"2018-10-30T11:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amchamchile.cl\/?p=157230"},"modified":"2018-10-30T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:39:54","slug":"this-ai-startup-generates-legal-papers-without-lawyers-and-suggests-a-ruling","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/amchamchile.cl\/en\/noticia\/this-ai-startup-generates-legal-papers-without-lawyers-and-suggests-a-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"[:es]This AI Startup Generates Legal Papers Without Lawyers, and Suggests a Ruling[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:es]<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-copy fence-body\">\n<p>Ignacio Raffa\u2019s app, Prometea, can judge you in 10 seconds. \u201cHello,\u201d he says into his phone. \u201cHello, Ignacio, what do you want to do?\u201d the app replies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCreate a ruling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the case file number?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c1-5-0-9-9.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seconds later, the artificial intelligence software has generated a draft ruling on a public housing case, one that carries the letterhead of the Buenos Aires district attorney\u2019s office and all the proper fonts and jargon, with no lawyers or paralegals involved. In Argentina, DAs write the decisions and the cases\u2019 presiding judges either reject them and write their own, or simply approve them. Prometea is being used for stuff like taxi license disputes, not murder trials, but it\u2019s a significant automation of the city\u2019s justice system. The Buenos Aires office says its 15 lawyers can now clear what used to be six months\u2019 worth of cases in just six weeks.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline-newsletter\" data-state=\"ready\"><\/aside>\n<p>Raffa, a local startup founder, and his colleagues created Prometea in partnership with the DA\u2019s office. The agency says the app has helped redirect staffers away from legal scut work and toward more complex cases, and that proofreaders rarely find errors when reviewing the computer-generated files. The app has attracted interest from the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, among others. \u201cIt can help legal systems around the world,\u201d says Asha Aravindakshan, a Sloan Fellow at MIT who saw a demo of the app this summer. \u201cEveryone has a backlog.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure-expandable\" data-align=\"center\" data-id=\"331945201\" data-image-size=\"column\" data-type=\"image\">\n<div class=\"image\">\n<div id=\"lazy-img-331945201\" class=\"lazy-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-img__image loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.bwbx.io\/images\/users\/iqjWHBFdfxIU\/iEEGwst7ok40\/v1\/1000x-1.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" data-native-src=\"https:\/\/assets.bwbx.io\/images\/users\/iqjWHBFdfxIU\/iEEGwst7ok40\/v1\/-1x-1.jpg\" data-img-type=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"lazy-img\">A year ago, Buenos Aires staffers filing a simple drunk-driving complaint had to fill in the same 39 details 111 times. Now they still have to provide basic ages, addresses, and vehicle numbers, but just once per document. Prometea (as in Prometheus) is also bilingual. Users searching the app for a case filed in Spanish can provide instructions in English, and the app will translate and search in Spanish.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Raffa trained the app using the DA office\u2019s digital library of some 300,000 scanned court documents from 2016 and 2017, including 2,000 rulings. When a case file enters the DA\u2019s system, Prometea matches it to the most relevant decisions in its database, enabling it to guess how the court will rule in relatively simple cases\u2014teachers complaining that they weren\u2019t compensated for classroom supplies they bought, for example. So far, judges have approved 33 of its 33 suggested rulings, and it\u2019s being used in at least 84 other pending cases. \u201cIt\u2019s not replacing humans,\u201d says Ezequiel Gonz\u00e1lez, a professor at the University of Oxford who hosted a demo of the app in May. \u201cIt simply comes to the rescue of judges that are buried in massive dockets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old Raffa, raised in Argentina\u2019s capital, started coding at his grandpa\u2019s urging at age 14. After college, he worked for local offices of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/HPQ:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hewlett-Packard Co.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/MSFT:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Corp.<\/a>\u00a0His previous AI startup made digital versions of popular Argentine card games with automated opponents, but two years ago, he says, he began to worry about what he was doing in the games business. \u201cWe were making people lazier,\u201d he says. He soon co-founded\u00a0<a title=\"ZTZ Tech Group | Exponential Productivity with AI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ztz.ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ZTZ Tech Group<\/a>\u00a0to focus on business uses for AI.<\/p>\n<p>After seeing a ZTZ program that generated reports on pricing data, Buenos Aires Deputy District Attorney Juan Corval\u00e1n contracted the company in the summer of 2017. Raffa wouldn\u2019t disclose ZTZ\u2019s revenues but says creating something like Prometea would cost $50,000 to $150,000, depending on complexity and revenue-sharing. It\u2019s also in use at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in Costa Rica, and it\u2019s central to an information-sharing agreement the DA\u2019s office signed in October with its counterpart in S\u00e3o Paulo. Raffa says he and his three co-workers hope to bring similar AI systems to the U.S. and Europe by next spring.<\/p>\n<p>Even some supporters worry about the possibility of Prometea being misused, given AI software\u2019s poor track record with predictive sentencing in the U.S. and elsewhere. \u201cIt raises all sorts of rule-of-law issues,\u201d says Gonz\u00e1lez, the Oxford professor. \u201cIs a machine deciding instead of a judge?\u201d Raffa says he\u2019s not interested in giving software the power to rule on a person\u2019s fate. Lawyers and judges should still do their jobs, he says\u2014he\u2019s just offering them a shortcut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bottom-line\"><span class=\"bottom-line__label\">BOTTOM LINE &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"bottom-line__text\">With 300,000 court filings in its database, Prometea has been able to drastically speed up the creation of new ones and is beginning to expand abroad.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:es] Ignacio Raffa\u2019s app, Prometea, can judge you in 10 seconds. \u201cHello,\u201d he says into his phone. \u201cHello, Ignacio, what do you want to do?\u201d the app replies. \u201cCreate a ruling&#8221;. \u201cWhat\u2019s the case file number?\u201d \u201c1-5-0-9-9.\u201d Seconds later, the artificial intelligence software has generated a draft ruling on a public housing case, one that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","news_tax":[],"user_type":[],"class_list":["post-10684","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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