Niall CJ at the Vic Justice Leaders Forum on 26 May 2026 suggested AI could be used:
- for “reducing the time to get across material… not by substituting summaries for reading, but by aiding the read in-process and reducing the time to navigate to known material.”
- for “…targeting: tasks that do not require 100% accuracy; and tasks that produce an output that facilitates human checking.”
- to “provide fast, reliable answers to process queries from Court users, allowing human effort to be directed to complex queries and the processing of cases as volumes increase.”
Other uses that immediately spring to mind include: legal research, automated transcription, scheduling, document processing, and natural-language triage or process navigation.
Below, I’ve placed tasks performed by ML systems in family groups and listed some associated actions. The goal is to make it easier to notice workflows that might benefit from ML systems.
| Family | Tasks | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Analyse | classify, cluster, pattern-identify, detect anomalies, analyse sentiment, extract | comparison, evaluation, critique, profiling, auditing, diagnosing, segmenting, triage, mapping, tagging, labelling, profiling, monitoring |
| Predict | forecast, rank/recommend | trend spotting, scoring, risk assessment, demand planning, delegation, routing, estimation, prioritisation |
| Reason | reason/infer, plan/decompose, decide | troubleshooting, delegation, root-cause analysis, strategy, scheduling, optimisation, critique |
| Transform (alter structure, format, fidelity of information without impacting meaning) | translate, summarise, denoise, impute, compress/embed | formatting, data cleaning, rephrasing, style/tone adaptation, synthesis, vectorising, editing, simplifying, localisation, normalisation |
| Generate (creation of something new) | generate (text/image/code), transcribe, caption | draft, design, tool building, prototyping, brainstorming, illustrating, coding, templating, documentation |
| Retrieve (accurate finding among giant data sets) | search/retrieve | fact-checking, information gathering, document lookup, semantic search, citation |
| Interact (exchange of information) | converse, instruct/explain | interviewing, coaching, tutoring, customer support, negotiation, role-play, guidance, onboarding, feedback delivery, dialogue-driven automation |
combinations
The output of one task becomes the input for another in order to perform the ultimate action.
2-family
- Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) - retrieval, generation
- Early warning systems - analysis, prediction
- Debate/socratic dialogue - reason, interaction
3-family
- Visualisation - analysis, transformation, generation
- Automation - reason, transformation, interaction
- Conversational knowledge base - retrieval, generation, interaction
- Research synthesis - retrieval, reason, generation
4-family
- Briefing and report generation - retrieval, analysis, reason, generation
- Simulation - analysis, prediction, reason, generation