知名律师亚历克斯·斯皮罗表示，人工智能可能会剥离法律行业中大部分“中间冗余环节”，推动更多案件走向快速和解或全面庭审。斯皮罗是奎因·伊曼纽尔·厄克哈特&沙利文律师事务所纽约办公室的合伙人，也是埃隆·马斯克的首选律师。他在周四接受科技访谈节目TBPN采访时表示，AI工具能帮助律师更容易判断案件是否值得提交庭审。
High-profile attorney Alex Spiro said artificial intelligence could strip much of the "fat in the middle" out of the legal industry, pushing more cases toward either quicker settlements or all-out trials. Spiro, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan's New York office and Elon Musk's go-to attorney, said during a Thursday appearance on the tech talk show TBPN that AI tools could help make it easier for lawyers to decide whether a case is worth taking to trial.
“我认为AI将消除许多事物的一层，包括我的日常工作。通过消除这一层，它能让你更快触及真相并加以综合，”斯皮罗说。“如果能做到这一点，我认为你就能更快做出决定：这是该和解的案子，还是该打到底的案子。”
"I think AI will eliminate a layer of a lot of things, including my day job. And by eliminating that layer, it allows you to get to the truth and synthesize it faster," Spiro said. "If you can do that, then I think you can make quicker decisions on, this is something to resolve or this is something to go all the way on."
斯皮罗曾代表演员亚历克·鲍德温、说唱歌手Jay-Z、新英格兰爱国者队老板罗伯特·克拉夫特以及前纽约市长埃里克·亚当斯。他表示，这可能意味着在昂贵、漫长的诉讼中拖延的案件会减少。
Spiro, who has represented actor Alec Baldwin, rapper Jay-Z, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams, said this could mean fewer cases languishing in costly, drawn-out litigation.
“也许运作方式会是，中间大量的冗余环节将被切除，”斯皮罗说。“案件将快速和解或进入庭审，不会再有那么多毫无意义、在两者之间摇摆不定的中间诉讼环节。”
"Maybe the way it'll work is a lot of the fat in the middle is going to be cut out," Spiro said. "Cases will settle quickly or go to trial, and there won't be as much in-between litigation that is pointless and sort of ebbing between the two."
最终，该技术的应用可能通过帮助律师更快分析案件、识别哪些案件值得抗争，从而导致庭审增多。
Ultimately, the use of the technology could lead to more trials by helping attorneys analyze cases more quickly and identify which cases are worth fighting.
“老实说，也许会有更多庭审，因为人们只会说：‘好，我们刚分析了这10个案子。这九个该和解。这一个不该。我们打到底，’”斯皮罗说。“这样人们就不会产生那种紧张感，那种让一些公司心想‘好，这三个得庭审’，但最终因过度规避风险而妥协的紧张感。”尽管如此，斯皮罗表示AI不会改变他的策略。
"Maybe there are more trials, frankly, because people just say, 'Okay we just did an analysis of these 10 cases. These nine should settle. This one shouldn't. We're going all the way,'" Spiro said. "And then people don't get that nervousness that they get where some companies they'll think in their mind, 'Okay, these three are going to have to be tried,' but then they end up caving because they're too risk averse." Still, Spiro said AI would not change his strategy.
“我20年来审理案件的方法，以及如何在陪审团面前陈述，从未改变，”斯皮罗说，并补充道，“有些辩论技巧管用，有些不管用。”他说：“陪审员不会因为AI而改变。”“所以我将以完全相同的方式与他们交谈，”斯皮罗说。“只是可能为我获取信息、并将其提炼成我论点的人会更少，或者他们把信息传递给我的路径更简单、更线性，因为他们拥有让这一过程更快、更顺畅的技术工具。”
"I haven't changed my approach to trying cases or how to present in front of a jury in 20 years," said Spiro, adding, "There are argumentative techniques that work and some that don't." Jurors, he said, "are not changing based on AI." "So I'm going to talk to them exactly the same way," Spiro said. "It just may be that the people that get me the information that I distill into my arguments, there needs to be fewer of them, or they have a simpler, more linear path in getting me that information because they have technological tools that make it faster, sleeker."
当被问及AI是否会让客户对自己的法律判断过度自信时，斯皮罗风趣地表示，他早已熟悉这种动态。“我代理的几乎全是自认为比我更懂法律的客户，”斯皮罗说。“这是我的专长。”
Asked whether AI could make clients overly confident in their own legal judgment, Spiro quipped that he was already familiar with that dynamic. "I represent almost exclusively clients that think that they know more about the law," said Spiro. "It's my specialty."