Extract from Ella Sherman’s article “Gen AI Is Not ‘The End All Be All’ in E-Discovery: A Chat With Legalweek Speaker Xavier Diokno”
The legal industry’s reaction to generative AI is unlike that of technology assisted review (TAR)—gen AI is often depicted as the remedy to e-discovery’s growing data challenges even though it only emerged a few years ago. But some tech developers advise that gen AI should be treated like any other legal tech tool—with caution.
Legaltech News spoke with Xavier Diokno, Consilio’s senior vice president of solutions and innovation, to discuss gen AI’s limitations and future potential, whether prompt engineering is sustainable and how gen AI accuracy can be tested.
Diokno is set to speak at the “When You Can’t Believe What You See: The Rise of Deepfakes and Generative AI” session on March 26 at Legalweek 2025 in New York.
This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
Consilio has been building a number of its products with generative AI. Where do you see gen AI heading in the e-discovery space in the coming years?
I think it’s interesting. I get asked the question like, “Well, what’s the difference between what we have with gen AI and technology assisted review (TAR) that came out about a dozen years ago?” And when it first came out you had all the claims that this is the end of doc review, the end of lawyers as we know it, the AIs are going to take over much of associates’ work.
