The newest kid on the law AI block is MiAI Law, a home-grown “reasoning system” that everyone’s favourite ex-judge Michael Kirby calls “the way of the future”.
MiAI is an Australian original, built by Sydney barrister Laina Chan, of 2 Selborne chambers, who was Kirby’s associate back in his days on the NSW Court of Appeal.
Chan’s platform tries to replicate the kind of thinking that lawyers do, breaking cases and statutes down into “propositions” that can be tracked, tested, prodded and challenged.
Unlike some tools, MiAI research is restricted to the law itself: its rules stop it from piecing together information from secondary sources (e.g. news commentary on a case), Chan explained.
MiAI – so-named when Chan’s husband quipped that her plan to code an AI was a “mission impossible” – has now secured $2 million in angel funding.
