Minnesota Law profs see AI potential in legal work
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Recent headlines regarding artificial intelligence and the legal profession have focused on errors, such as citations to cases and articles that do not exist. However, a new study conducted in part by University of Minnesota Law professors Daniel Schwarcz and David Cleveland found reason to believe that AI tools will significantly enhance the quality and productivity of legal work.
Schwarcz and Cleveland, along with colleagues from the Centre for the Governance of AI, the University of Michigan Law School, and the Ogletree Deakins law firm, collaborated on a new study evaluating how AI tools affected legal work. This is the first randomized controlled trial assessing these technologies. The findings were published on the Social Science Research Network.
Schwarcz has been doing studies since ChatGPT came out and says that he has continued this line of inquiry because he is convinced it is “super, super important.”
“On the one hand, I am convinced it is really important. It is going to fundamentally change lawyering,” Schwarcz said. “The other piece of it is, yeah, there is certainly hype, and certainly undue hype at times.”
“Figuring out what is hype, and what’s real, is important, for a lot of reasons,” Schwarcz said.
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