2024-03-01 15:00:01
Recent years have been marked by the boom in generative artificial intelligence and conversational chatbots. These innovations are reshaping the contours of our daily lives and impacting many areas such as the legal sector. Yesterday we needed an experienced lawyer to answer our questions and help us protect our rights. Today, we just need to use a chatbot to get the answers to our questions and know the procedure to follow.
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Current advances in AI in the legal field:
Today, AI focuses on 3 legal sectors:
– Research and access to legal information
– Auditing and contract management
– Assessment of legal risk
Many legal chatbots aiming to deliver legal information have also emerged: Juribot, LegiGPT, Ordalie.tech, etc. The objective of these chatbots is to allow any individual to know their rights and the steps to follow. to defend them.
The startup BotnationAI indicates that the objective of a legalbot (legal chatbot) is to save companies time in order to declutter their legal department or the law firms it employs. Indeed, thanks to these AIs, lawyers will be able to focus on the most important questions and problems that cannot be handled by AI.
Additionally, AI processes information more quickly and efficiently than humans. A contract can be obtained in a few seconds compared to several hours or days if you go through a lawyer.
Finally, AI is significantly less expensive than a lawyer. However, this innovation is stalling in many aspects of the legal profession.
The limits of AI in the legal field:
When asking Chatgpt if AI might replace lawyers, the answer was emphatic: no. For ChatGPT a lawyer must negotiate, represent clients, make ethical decisions and understand human emotions, which AI cannot do. I asked the same question to Juribot, one of the chatbots specialized in law, his answer was similar.
It is true that AI processes information quickly but does not necessarily grasp the nuances of different cases and sometimes invents certain case law. An American lawyer paid the price following using AI to write these conclusions in which he cited six cases to support his arguments. The judge took it up because none of the case law cited existed, they had been invented byr ChatGPT. The American media The Verge specifies that the chatbot had, for example, mentioned a case “Varghese vs. China Southern Airlines Co. Ltd.” which did not actually exist and appeared to refer to the facts of a real case called “Zicherman vs. Korean Air Lines Co. Ltd.” published 12 years following the bogus case invented by ChatGPT.
The AI’s partial understanding of the law was also illustrated during the first stage of the Luxembourg bar exam when the proposed exercise in commercial law was to correct and complete if necessary the assertions made by chatgpt. Some claims developed by the AI were false.
For the moment, AI cannot replace lawyers but it can allow them to improve the quality of their services because they will focus on the most important issues. However, lawyers should not underestimate the potential of artificial intelligence and must continue to train continuously in order to be up to date on the various legislative developments. It is even better that they use AI to complete their knowledge by becoming the lawyer of tomorrow, an ‘augmented’ lawyer.
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