[engineer_22]

This is an area for further development and thought...

If a LLM can pass the bar, and has a corpus of legal work instantly accessible, what prevents the deployment of the LLM (or other AI structure) to provide legitimate legal services?

If the AI is providing legal services, how do we assign responsibility for the work (to the AI, or to its owner)? How to insure the work for Errors and Omissions?

More practically, if willing to take on responsibility for yourself, is the use of AI going to save you money?

[AnimalMuppet]

A human that screws up either too often or too spectacularly can be disbarred, even if they passed the bar. They can also be sued. If a GPT screws up, it could in theory be disbarred. But you can't sue it for damages, and you can't tell whether the same model under a different name is the next legal GPT you consult.

[engineer_22]

Agreed - which is why this is an area that needs more thought and development

[p-e-w]

> If a LLM can pass the bar, and has a corpus of legal work instantly accessible, what prevents the deployment of the LLM (or other AI structure) to provide legitimate legal services?

The law, which you can bet will be used with full force to prevent such systems from upsetting the (obscenely profitable) status quo.

[engineer_22]

My comrades in law work too hard, to be fair

[freejazz]

To be an attorney you also have to pass an ethics exam and a character and fitness examination.

[nprateem]

Re your first point: it's not conscious. It has no understanding. It's perfectly possible the model could successfully answer an exam question but fail to reach the same or similar conclusion when it has to reason it's own way there based on information provided.

[engineer_22]

Great point, LLM will not be great at ground breaking law.... But most lawyers aren't. That's to say, most law isn't cutting edge. The law is mostly a day-to-day administrative matter

[mvdtnz]

Careful, there are plenty of True Believers on this website who really think that these "guess the next word" machines really do have consciousness and understanding.

[lewhoo]

I incline towards you on the subject but if you call it guessing you open yourself up to all sorts of rebuttals.