The Case Against AI In Legal Work

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all around us and has become an integral part of our lives in ways we do not and may never realize. Even in the practice of law, AI can enhance legal research (subject to personal verification) and automate routine tasks. However, the legal profession has not yet reached the point where it can formally integrate AI into practice beyond administrative support without significantly compromising the quality and accuracy of our work. As we have all seen so far, attorneys testing the AI waters have done so with disastrous results in many cases.

The Limits of AI in Legal Reasoning

Practically speaking, lawyers review, analyze, and think — drawing on their education, training, experience, and even intuition. AI does none of that; if it could, we would all have to find other careers. Instead, large language model generative AI simply digests a vast amount of information and then predicts what a human most likely would say in response to