Extract from Ella Sherman’s article “As Gen AI Acceptance Grows, Lawyers Race to Mitigate Risks”
With gen AI’s potential growing in the e-discovery space, legal experts warn that a balance between understanding AI’s risks and accepting its increasing popularity is crucial.
During Tuesday’s “Balancing Ethics and Efficiency in GenAI and Legal” webinar hosted by Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), legal and tech experts explored the implications of adopting gen AI while simultaneously protecting clients and their information.
Gen AI’s Current Impression
Experts noted that despite gen AI becoming mainstream fairly recently in 2022, it’s gained a lot of momentum in the legal world ever since.
“I’m seeing the green light now,” said Reed Smith partner and board of project trustees chair David Cohen. “We’re actually starting to use this stuff in our real cases and it does some things very well: It’s a great research starter, it’s great for summarizing long documents or groups of documents.”
