AI and the law (1/3) - preparing the brief for technology working alongside legal professionals
When we think about AI and the law, perhaps we first think in terms of laws relating to AI and thus to the thorny, and resolutely unresolved, issue of regulation. The other side of this though is the question of what the impact of AI tech on the legal profession itself will play out in practice. Is the sector on a par with others when it comes to facing the risk of the value proposition of its practitioners becoming commoditized in the face of competition from Large Language Models (LLMs)?
There have already been some high-profile examples of AI being used unwisely by the legal profession. Recently in the UK international law firm Pinsent Masons was roasted for misleading a court twice - once by providing references which featured AI hallucinations, then compounding this faux pas by using AI to produce an explanatory letter into what had happened that itself...
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