Defense attorneys should cautiously adopt AI, new study says
Defense attorneys should cautiously adopt AI, new study says
Defense lawyers have an “ethical obligation” to responsibly adopt certain artificial intelligence tools just as prosecutors increasingly utilize the technology, according to a report released Thursday by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
In Parity in Practice: The Defender’s Duty to Ethically Use AI, Mason Clark, an assistant law professor at the St. Mary’s University School of Law and the report’s author, spells out the pros and cons of using current AI tools.
Instead of using commercial AI products—such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini or Anthropic’s Claude—that carry significant confidentiality worries, according to the report, defenders should investigate using “enterprise” AI tools, such as Microsoft Copilot via a Microsoft license or legal-specific tools, such as Harvey and Thomson Reuters’ CoCounsel.
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