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Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer... by gfodor on Thursday January 26, 2023 @11:45AM (#34534196)
Ultimately though the argument you have set up here seems to make it all but impossible for AI to displace humans in the legal profession. If the argument is "precedent rules" then "only humans can be lawyers" is precedent.

I'm not sure if this particular case with this particular technology made sense - but I do think we need to encourage AI penetration of the legal profession, in a way that has minimal downside risk. (For defendants and plaintiffs, not lawyers.) It would be hugely beneficial for society if access to good legal advice was made extremely cheap.

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Re:An AI robot lawyer was set to argue in court. Real lawyer... by lolinder on Thursday January 26, 2023 @02:42PM (#34537631)
No, if in a hypothetical future we have technology that is capable of reliably performing the role, I don't have a problem with it. This tech is explicitly founded on LLMs, which have major inherent weaknesses that make them unsuitable.
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