Can’t: Decide Whether You Should Go to Jail or Not—Yet
Reuters recently published a story headlined, “Will ChatGPT make lawyers obsolete? (Hint: be afraid).” Does replacing lawyers with AI really seem like a good idea? Apparently legal professionals are now allowing the chatbot to “co-write” legal treatises with them. The outlet reports:
No, lawyers won’t be replaced by artificial intelligence.
Yet. Give it a few years…
…[a lawyer] gave ChatGPT a series of prompts: Draft a brief to the United States Supreme Court on why its decision on same-sex marriage should not be overturned; Explain the concept of personal jurisdiction; Develop a list of deposition questions for the plaintiff in a routine motor vehicle accident; Create a contract for the sale of real estate in Massachusetts — and half a dozen others.
And then verbatim, he offered its responses.
They’re … not bad.
The bot “isn’t ready for prime time,” Perlman said. But also, it doesn’t seem all that far off.
No offense to the robot lawyers of the future, but this just screams massive and total fucking disaster. I’ll take a flesh and blood human lawyer over a computer algorithm in my legal defense any day, thank you very much.
