General AI Legal Updates
Here are just a few more recent stories with some predictions specifically for the legal industry:
Frankly, the AI news is getting cacophonous. You are very likely seeing stories floating around about Hollywood suing (BBC) and striking (Twitter) to save their livelihoods, the imminent domination of Microsoft Copilot (Forbes), and the end of the legal profession (CNBC, at 5m45s). As they say: it's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. There are equal and opposite stories about the huge challenges remaining before "transformative AI" (The Gradient) and the likely very slow diffusion of current levels of AI into the economy (The Economist).
Here are just a few more recent stories with some predictions specifically for the legal industry:
1. Forbes: Attorneys must embrace AI to future-proof their firms
2. Canadian Lawyer Magazine & American Lawyer Media: Judges order disclosure of generative AI in legal submissions with speculation on impacts to law firm practices and access to justice for self-representing litigants
3. American Lawyer Media: LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters on the Future of AI in legal research
4. Thomson Reuters: In-house corporate attorneys don't want to pay outside law firms for ChatGPT when they could use it themselves
5. The Economist: Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law