“我们正在帮助律师变得更好，”FluxCap 联合创始人对 ABC 新闻说。
“We’re trying to help lawyers be better,” a FluxCap co-founder told ABC News.
两位前司法部官员于周三推出了 FluxCap，这一人工智能平台他们称可以帮助律师处理本可能永远无法进入法庭的案件。
Two former Justice Department officials on Wednesday launched FluxCap, a new artificial intelligence platform they say could help lawyers take on cases that might otherwise never make it to court.
处理重大案件往往需要庞大的律师团队、数月的工作以及巨额资金——这是一项长期存在的问题，常常使小型律所、政府机构和普通民众在与资源远超自己的公司竞争时处于劣势。
Handling major cases can require a large team of lawyers, months of work, and tons of money – a longstanding problem that often puts smaller firms, government agencies and everyday people at a disadvantage against companies with far more resources.
“在司法部让我们夜不能寐的，并不是我们已经提起的案件，而是我们没有机会提起的案件，”FluxCap 联合创始人兼联席首席执行官乔纳森·坎特对 ABC 新闻说。
"What kept us up at night at the Department of Justice were not the cases we brought, but the cases we didn't have the chance to bring," FluxCap co-founder and co-CEO Jonathan Kanter told ABC News.
坎特和另一位联合创始人兼联席首席执行官多哈·梅基此前均在拜登总统任内领导司法部反垄断部门——梅基还曾在特朗普和奥巴马总统任内于司法部任职——他们表示，FluxCap 的创意来源于他们的政府工作经验。坎特估计，他的团队只能对大约 10% 的他们认为值得提起的案件进行追诉。
Kanter and fellow co-founder and co-CEO Doha Mekki, who both previously led the DOJ's antitrust division under President Joe Biden – Mekki also served in the DOJ under Presidents Trump and Obama – said the idea for FluxCap came from their government experience. Kanter estimates his team was only able to pursue about 10% of the cases they believed were worth bringing.
“我们的人手严重不足，”坎特说。“我们拥有世界上最优秀的律师，但我们需要的人手远超我们能够调动的，这是最大的障碍。”FluxCap 称其技术可以通过处理本需律师团队耗费数天或数周才能完成的任务——例如审阅数百份法律文件和进行法律检索——并在极短时间内完成，从而解决这一问题。
"We were completely outnumbered," Kanter said. "We had some of the greatest lawyers in the world, but we needed more people than we could possibly bring in, and that was the biggest obstacle." FluxCap says its technology can address that problem by handling tasks that could take a team of lawyers days or weeks to complete – such as reviewing hundreds of legal documents and conducting legal research – and in a fraction of that time.
与 ChatGPT 等通用人工智能工具不同，FluxCap 平台专为复杂法律工作设计，最初聚焦于反垄断法，公司表示计划向其他法律领域扩展。其创始人辩称，一次专注于单一专业能够使技术比大型人工智能公司的工具更为精细和准确。
Unlike general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT, the FluxCap platform is specifically designed for complex legal work with an initial focus on antitrust law, according to the company, with plans to expand into additional legal fields. Its founders argue that focusing on one specialty at a time makes the technology more sophisticated and accurate than the tools from larger AI companies.
其创始人表示，该平台还旨在帮助律师制定法律策略、发现证据缺口并预判对方的论点，但他们强调，这项技术意在辅助律师的判断，而非取代判断。
The platform is also designed to help lawyers develop legal strategies, identify gaps in evidence and anticipate opposing arguments, its founders say, though they emphasize that the technology is intended to support lawyers’ judgement, not replace it.
坎特对ABC新闻表示：“我们并不是想成为一个更好的律师；我们是想帮助律师变得更出色。”
“We’re not trying to be a better lawyer; we’re trying to help lawyers be better,” Kanter told ABC News.
对梅基而言，这项技术的前景不止于帮助反垄断法律团队更快地工作。她在司法部工作了十年，用她的话说，是在“前线”。她相信，这一工具将帮助律师更好地服务公众。
For Mekki, who spent a decade at the Justice Department on what she described as "the front lines," the promise of the technology goes beyond helping antitrust legal teams work faster. She believes the tool will help lawyers better serve the public.
梅基说：“我们听到律师们说，他们对执业感到兴奋，他们在做自己以前不知道可能做到的事情。更多的人可以获得代理，更好地诉诸经济正义，以挽回他们在市场上遭受的损失。”
"We’re hearing lawyers say that they're excited about practicing law, that they're doing things they didn't know were possible," said Mekki. "More people can have representation and have better access to economic justice to recover losses that they suffered in the marketplace."