Why It Matters
Professional responsibility guidance generally expects lawyers to supervise AI the way they would supervise a junior colleague. Building review steps into the workflow, rather than leaving them to individual habit, is how firms make that consistent.
Related Terms
- AI hallucination
- A confident but false answer from an AI tool, such as a citation to a case that does not exist or a quote no court ever wrote.
- AI governance
- The policies, approvals, training and monitoring an organization uses to decide which AI tools people may use, for what, and how the results are checked.
- AI agent
- An AI system that carries out a multi-step task on its own, such as gathering documents, reviewing them against a checklist and drafting a summary, rather than answering a single prompt.
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