India, June 18 -- Deciding whether to leverage Artificial Intelligence for better legal outcomes may not be as long-standing a case as the petition involving Berhampore Bank's liquidation. This petition took nearly seven decades to reach its logical conclusion. The use of AI, comparatively, may find acceptance faster in the legal industry although currently the practice of AI is a paradox of sorts.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already emerged as a transformative force in several sectors such as drug discovery and high-tech manufacturing. Many proponents have argued previously on the benefits of a clutch of AI technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, and even data analytics.

Ability of AI tools to streamlin...