Should AI assistants be allowed to provide legal advice?

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Position: Yes, AI assistants should be allowed to provide legal advice
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 * Lawyers are expensive ($250 - $350 per hour, on average for a lawyer vs $20/month for GPT4 access) and so using AI could democratize access to legal advice
 * High legal costs are from a shortage of lawyers for many popular services. This shortage is not due to a total shortage of lawyers but from a misallocation of lawyers.
 * Therefore AI would help fill the gap of lack of lawyers for popular services.
 * AI assistants could in theory work more quickly than human lawyers, increasing the speed of the legal process
 * Speed may sacrifice accuracy and quality of service
 * Lawyers cannot be fully trusted to work in their clients' best interests, but AI assistants can be transparently programmed to do so
 * AI assistants can also be programmed to work in their developers'/owners' best interests instead of the interests of the clients
 * AI-powered legal assistants can help streamline processes, improve efficiency, and assist law professionals in various tasks such as legal research, document review, deposition preparation, and contract analysis
 * AI-driven tools can create more time for lawyers and legal professionals by automating routine tasks such as legal research and analysis, document management, and billing
 * Lawyers and other legal professionals may miss mistakes made in these routine tasks, and they may miss more mistakes over time as they lose familiarity with the tasks
 * Technology has historically increased productivity. There is no reason to believe that lawyers would pay for a system that decreases their ability to service their clients.

Position: No, AI assistants should not be allowed to provide legal advice

 * Hallucinations could wreck havoc in the courtroom
 * While chatGPT currently will hallucinate legal advice and should be used with caution when being used as a legal assistant other systems such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) are showing promise in removing hallucinations. The desertion should be up to the lawyer.
 * Humans are also quite capable, and do at times, write bogus court filings
 * Argument against the second possibility.
 * People and corporations with more resources can access better quality AI assistants, further increasing legal inequality
 * AI legal assistants lack the ability to exercise professional judgment or discretion, which is often required in providing legal advice tailored to the specific needs of a client
 * AI assistants may struggle to understand the nuances of a particular case or legal issue, as they rely on programmed algorithms and lack the contextual understanding that human lawyers possess
 * They may not have the breadth of knowledge and expertise that human lawyers possess across various areas of law

Position: AI should only be allowed to provide legal advice if...

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 * The AI assistant is properly licensed.
 * The AI assistant consents.
 * Argument against the second possibility.