The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, has emphasised the need for lawyers to embrace modern technology by imbibing the application of Artificial Intelligence, AI, in law business.
Justice Kekere-Ekun gave the charge in Ilorin, Kwara State, at the opening of the three-day sixteenth Annual General Conference of the Muslim Lawyers Association of Nigeria, MULAN.
The CJN, represented by the presiding Justice, Court of Appeal, Ilorin Division, Justice Ridwan Abdullahi, described the theme of this year’s conference, Artificial Intelligence, Law and Religion in Nigeria, as apt and timely.
She said AI is the replication of human intelligence in machines, premeditated to think and act like humans.
According to her, these systems can perform tasks such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception and language understanding that naturally would involve human intelligence.
She, however, told the participants that they owe it a duty to scrutinise with critical minds before they allow the integration of AI into the legal framework.
