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The use of artificial intelligence in the legal world has received some bad press over the past year with the example of ChatGPT botching a case, but AI technology has been used for investigative purposes outside of the courtroom for years and is constantly improving efficiency. doing.
One area where AI tools are showing real success is in helping to apprehend suspects who prey on children.
Artificial intelligence tools created for the legal field can help identify child predators. (Getty Images/Getty Images)
The National Center on Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has leveraged AI technology to save time and valuable resources to identify and ultimately prosecute child predators at scale.
The nonprofit organization, which works with law enforcement agencies to prevent child abductions, recover missing children, and combat child exploitation, uses AI technology developed by e-discovery company Reveal. , which saved NCMEC more than 4,000 hours of review and investigation time and helped process more than 21,000 pieces of information. Last year's missing child case.
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Gavin Portnoy, NCMEC's vice president of strategic advancement and partnerships, told FOX Business that in one case, the defendant's attorney had access to approximately 500,000 pages or more of documents as part of numerous preliminary examinations. He said he has served a subpoena on the non-profit organization that requires it to be scrutinized. File an objection to dismiss a criminal case.
“Until now, most of our legal teams have manually completed reviewing/editing/creating documents as required by the court, allowing criminal cases to move forward without risk, and after just a few weeks. In order to meet the delivery deadline, we had to give up everything, risking any sanctions or even worse, the possibility of the case being dismissed,” Portnoy said in a statement. “NCMEC's General Counsel's Office has saved hundreds of hours of attorney time by leveraging Reveal's Logikcull technology to process quickly and efficiently.”
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Portnoy said NCMEC does not use Reveal AI for anything directly related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and any files or documents loaded into the software for legal review are not CSAM. I emphasized that.
Reveal founder and CEO Wendell Jisa told FOX Business that his company's AI tools Used to catch predators, especially as a father of three. “But what I actually find really interesting and compelling is the fact that this technology wasn't built for that,” he said.
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“This was essentially created to do something different for business purposes, to process large amounts of data… for big law and big corporations, to save money and time.” Jisa explained. “But I love the fact that we can repurpose technology to solve bigger problems, bigger world problems.”
Jisa started Reveal 12 years ago with the goal of building a repository for legal data. But the company, now valued at more than $1 billion, has evolved to establish itself as a category leader in AI tools, particularly in e-discovery and investigations.
Reveal has been inundated with requests for AI tools from across the legal field. (Stiphon Chandeen/iStock / iStock)
The company features a wide variety of AI-powered tools used by law firms of all sizes, and now law enforcement agencies around the world, to sift through large amounts of data. However, NCMEC is just one of the success stories Reveal has heard from clients.
A major law firm uses Reveal technology to detect and prevent bribery and cartel activity within its large corporate organization. Fortune 50 healthcare company uses our tools to conduct internal investigations to determine whether former employees stole intellectual property, enabling rapid response and legal review. Saved more than $1.6 million in costs.
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Countless government agencies, from local school districts to federal agencies, also use Reveal tools.
“This cuts across a wide range of areas across the legal industry, going beyond the use of AI that was purpose-built for one purpose and is now expanding into other areas that are actually impacting the world,” Zissa said. We are solving the problem.”
