Opinion: AI can’t replace good lawyers

February 22, 2023

BLOOMBERG LAW — Law professors Deborah Jones Merritt and Mary Lu Bilek assess the implications of ChatGPT’s ability to (almost) pass the bar exam, and what that says about the test as a marker of the ability to effectively practice law. 

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Researchers look at AI program ChatGPT’s ability to pass law school exams

January 31, 2023

REUTERS — ChatGPT cannot yet outscore most law students on exams, new research suggests, but it can eke out a passing grade. A quartet of law professors at the University of Minnesota used the popular artificial intelligence chatbot to generate answers to exams in four courses last semester, then graded them blindly alongside actual students’

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Law professors share concerns over the AI program ChatGPT and cheating

January 18, 2023

REUTERS — The artificial intelligence program ChatGPT came up short last month on the multiple choice portion of the bar exam. Law professors are among those both alarmed and delighted by ChatGPT since its November release. 

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How developments in AI could impact law school curricula

January 18, 2023

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION — The emergence of ChatGPT underlines that keeping the status quo may be the beginning of the end for legal education, warns Mimi Zou.

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IIT Chicago-Kent Law professor Daniel Martin Katz co-authors paper on teaching artificial intelligence legalese

May 24, 2022

CHICAGO-KENT COLLEGE OF LAW — When it comes to teaching machines how to understand and utilize language, it turns out that the more legalese that they know, the better, according to a new paper co-authored by Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor and Law Lab Director Daniel Martin Katz.

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Penn Law professor Cary Coglianese co-authors Duke Law Journal article on artificial intelligence

March 15, 2022

PENN LAW — In a pathbreaking article recently published in the Duke Law Journal, Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, and Alicia Lai L’21 explore governmental reliance on digital algorithms, concluding that “public officials should proceed with care on a case-by-case basis” when deciding whether to employ digital algorithms,

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Northwestern Law professor Daniel Linna discusses research on artificial intelligence and the law

February 15, 2022

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — The rapid and transformational growth of artificial intelligence (AI) technology will profoundly impact the legal landscape. This requires lawyers, judges, and consulting and testifying experts to be knowledgeable of evolving topics related to AI and issues that govern the admissibility of AI evidence in civil and criminal cases.

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What lawyers need to know about artificial intelligence

December 20, 2021

ABA JOURNAL — Although artificial intelligence has been the subject of academic research since the 1950s and has been used commercially in some industries for decades, it is still in its infancy across much of the broader economy. The rapid adoption of this technology, along with the unique privacy, security and liability issues associated with it, has

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Penn Law professor Christopher Yoo and fellow Giovanna Massarotto to participate in panel on artificial intelligence and antitrust law

November 9, 2021

PENN LAW — As part of Penn Law Antitrust Association’s Annual Seminar, “Competition Around the Globe and Beyond,”Christopher Yoo, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science and Founding Director of the Center for Technology Innovation and Competition (CTIC), and Giovanna Massarotto, CTIC Academic Fellow, will participate in a panel discussion, “Algorithms,

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Penn State Dickinson Law professor Sara Gerke co-authors article in Science on artificial intelligence in healthcare

July 29, 2021

PENN STATE DICKINSON LAW — Professor Sara Gerke co-authors a new piece in Science on the drawbacks of explainable artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms in health care. Her co-authors include scholars from Harvard Law School, INSEAD, and the University of Toronto.

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