AI 能否弥补司法中的律师缺口：更多 AI，更多正义？

📈 Monday data: More AI, more justice?

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英格兰和威尔士今年60%的被告无律师代理，美国超九成被追债消费者也自行应诉，AI 或为他们提供新的抗辩途径。澳大利亚学者 Greg Baker 借助 AI 挑战雇主拒绝转正式岗位，获公平工作委员会裁决支持。另据数据，5月约0.6%的 Claude 使用与律师任务相关，在718种职业中排第38位，其中五分之四是询问自身权利或法律含义。

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In England and Wales, 60% of defendants in defended county court claims this year did not have a lawyer. In the US, more than nine in ten consumers sued for debt face the case without one.

AI may give some of them a new way to argue their case.

In Australia, Greg Baker, a computing academic, used AI to challenge his employer’s refusal to make his casual job permanent, and the Fair Work Commission ruled in his favor – an early example of a self-represented litigant winning with help from AI agents.

Around 0.6% of all Claude use in May was for lawyers’ tasks, ranking 38th of 718 occupations, ahead of accountants but well behind programmers and writers. Four-fifths of these queries were people asking about their rights or what the law means.