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"The best fuzzy rules, the best knowledge, deal with the turning points of the system. If a race-car driver teaches you how to drive, you don't need him to show you how to drive on the straightaway. It's how he handles the curves that matters."
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This is an early reference to this idea in science fiction. However, the first "knowledge-based systems" for the law appeared in the early 1980's. The earliest speculations by lawyers dates from a 1949 paper by Lee Loevinger titled Jurimetrics. The Next Step Forward.
Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing this item out.
See also the law clerk robot from Frederik Pohl's 1954 novel The Midas Plague, the lawyer program from David Brin's 1990 novel Earth and the virtual counsel from Greg Bear's 2007 novel Quantico. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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