Extract from Katie Pecho’s article “Why the Human Element Is Essential to Successful AI: Insights from AI Visionaries”
It has been a long time since a topic has so quickly, and lastingly, swept the business world and the legal field quite like AI. By now, on some level, generative AI beckons legal professionals everywhere. It represents both an inevitable horizon and a (maybe) murky path we are already walking—though some of us didn’t quite mean to be on it in the first place.
And it’s exciting: here is a tool promising to transform the way we work and, in turn, revolutionize the legal field in ways that could affect substantial, positive change. What’s perhaps most intoxicating about AI is how it is already—and quickly—delivering on its promises.
Still, legal organizations are wisely cognizant of risk, and legal professionals are working diligently to balance the promise of AI with the uncertainty of Anything New.
So how do you navigate a winding, complex web for which you don’t have a roadmap? The starting point is simple: you don’t lose touch with your roots. You center yourself and your strategy around the human element that inspires and informs the innovation in the first place.
And next? It helps to have a powerhouse of human experts helming the charge.
