Will an increasing amount of deepfakes — deceptive images, content, and videos often created by AI and floated on the internet — start making us doubt our own eyes?

AI is rapidly transforming numerous industries, including the legal field. AI-powered solutions streamline workflows, automate mundane tasks, and enhance efficiency, saving both time and resources. However, a new wave of AI is taking the world by storm.

Add a smidgen of Agile, dust with a hint of Waterfall, and add a large dollop of Scrum, and you’ve got a modern project. In years past, you would have had to choose a single methodology to get a project done, but increasingly in today’s world, you can select additional project methodologies that will help you get the job done better.

Recently, more than $240,000 was stolen by someone pretending to be an executive at a British energy company. This event does not seem all that out of the ordinary, except that the executive was not a real person. Thieves used voice-mimicking software in order to imitate the real executive. And they got away with it. This scam was enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) that was used to create a realistic deep-fake imitation. It is being called the world’s first AI heist.

We are at the beginning of a new machine age. Intelligent computing is being successfully applied to many areas of manufacturing, banking, medical, investing and legal work and it will only grow. How will law firms adapt? Can legal work be done by a machine?

Computers are everywhere and have gotten smaller and faster. With easy availability of the Internet, these little and powerful computers grew to form an “Internet of things” collecting, processing and presenting useful information to us.