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Law Practice,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Dec. 6, 2023

AI in legal practice: New California Bar guidelines

The legal profession has become increasingly interested in using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the practice of law. However, AI also raises ethical concerns, including potential breaches of client confidential information, biased outputs, and breaches of the duty of competence and standard of care.

In the year since the large language model chatbot ChatGPT debuted, the legal profession has become consumed with the possibility of using generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the practice of law. Such tools consist of deep learning models that train on vast amounts of data, and generate text, images and other data based on that data. This enables sophisticated outputs that come closer than ever before to human thinking and understanding, as well as significant...

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