SINGAPORE - A new international association to promote the development and use of technology by legal professionals in the region was launched in Singapore on Thursday .
At the opening ceremony of the two-day conference on Thursday, Law Minister K. Shanmugam urged lawyers to embrace technology in their work, noting that it is critical for the legal profession to understand where technology is headed. "AI can help us make decisions, but what is the legal liability? Who takes responsibility when things go wrong?" he asked the audience, adding that there are various questions to consider including the product liability, and how to contractually exclude or limit liability.
The British computer scientist had invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or Cern, as a way to exchange information with other scientists.