Lawyers demand AI they can trust, says report

Its report, ‘Scaling up: the AI-dependent lawyer’, published this week, found accuracy remains the profession’s biggest concern. Four out of five lawyers highlighted the risks of fabricated information and said they want to use AI that is grounded in trusted legal sources.

The report’s editor, Dylan Brown of LexisNexis, said: ‘The findings point to a legal profession that is becoming more comfortable with AI, but more demanding about the trust, accuracy and authority behind it.’

However, more than three-quarters of the lawyers reported that AI use is causing clients or the general public to misinterpret the law, a concern shared consistently across the profession.