Claudette – An Automated Detector of Potentially Unfair Clauses in Online Terms of Service

Randy Goebel gave a great presentation on the use of AI in Judicial Decision Making on Friday to my AI Ethics course. He showed us an example tool called Claudette which can be used to identify potentially unfair clauses in a Terms and Conditions document. You can try it here at the dedicated web site here.

Why is this useful? It provides a form of summary of a document none of us read that could help us catch problematic clauses. It could help us be more careful users of applications.