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The world's first AI legal assistant

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Andrew Arruda |

TED@IBM

• November 2016

As a lawyer, Andrew Arruda too often saw the scales of justice tip in favor of the wealthy and partnered with a computer scientist to create the world's first artificially intelligent legal assistant, ROSS. By speeding up legal research, Arruda wants ROSS to make the practice of law cheaper and fulfill the original promise of "justice for all."

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As a lawyer, Andrew Arruda too often saw the scales of justice tip in favor of the wealthy and partnered with a computer scientist to create the world's first artificially intelligent legal assistant, ROSS. By speeding up legal research, Arruda wants ROSS to make the practice of law cheaper and fulfill the original promise of "justice for all."

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About the speaker

Andrew Arruda

Entrepreneur, lawyer

Andrew Arruda is the CEO and co-founder of ROSS Intelligence, the world’s first artificially intelligent lawyer. ROSS reads millions of legal documents efficiently, understands lawyers’ research questions and gets smarter each time it interacts with a lawyer. Before he co-founded the company, Arruda worked at a litigation boutique in Toronto, Canada and with the Canadian department of foreign affairs, trade and development in Lisbon, Portugal.

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