The fun thing about any automation is that it is *most* tempting to use in situations with tight deadlines and cognitive fatigue & *most* impactful for people who don't know how to do it the manual way.
What this means is that when it fails, the operator is structurally *guaranteed* to be fucked.
My new co-authored paper offers 3 evidence-based tips for lawyer AI use:
1. Use AI only when you can assess, explain, & build on output
2. Limit AI use to narrow, well-defined parts of project
3. Limit AI use under tight deadlines or cognitive fatigue. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com
Artificial Intelligence and Human Legal Reasoning
Empirical evidence increasingly demonstrates that generative artificial intelligence has the capacity to improve the speed and quality of legal work, yet many l