AI reads boring terms and conditions documents so you don’t have to

Terms and conditions, website cookies, concept on the screen of computer

Settle in for a lengthy read

Anna Berkut

Almost no one reads the long and complicated terms and conditions (T&C) agreements found on websites and apps, but now an artificial intelligence (AI) can pick out the important bits for you.

These legal documents are famously impenetrable – a 2019 study of 500 popular websites found that 99 per cent required a reading age beyond that of the average person in the US.

In an attempt to alleviate this issue, Jason Hong at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania and his colleagues trained a machine …