Ignoring artificial intelligence is not an option – and blaming the technology \u2018for our own inadequacies\u2019 is a mistake, the master of the rolls has said in his latest speech on the topic.<\/p>\n
Sir Geoffrey Vos told the Expert Witness Institute\u2019s annual conference that, although change is taking place ‘at what some find to be an alarming pace\u2019, the technology can help: for example,\u00a0AI-generated submissions by litigants in person are \u2018often, if not always, more concise [and] make more sense\u2019.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile clients expect lawyers to use AI wisely and effectively to save chargeable hours. ‘Ignoring AI is not really an option for anyone in the litigation business,’ the master of the rolls said. As for the risks of\u00a0errors, privilege-based privacy, regulatory compliance and hallucinations, there are two \u2018simple\u2019 answers.\u00a0‘First, any professional is personally responsible for their own work produced, however it is produced. If an expert, lawyer, accountant, engineer, or doctor produces inaccurate or unreliable opinions\u2026[they] are likely to be liable whether they used AI or not.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018I would not dream of putting a case in one of my judgments that I had not looked at and read and was confident existed. Why put in something they have not checked and know to be credible from their own professional knowledge?\u00a0We are mistaken when we blame AI for our own inadequacies.’<\/p>\n
He noted: \u2018AI makes very subtle mistakes often so it really is important to check every word.\u2019<\/p>\n
Secondly, the way to avoid risks to confidentiality and privacy is not to feed private information into a\u00a0public large-language model system, Vos said.<\/p>\n
Expert witnesses, he said, should likewise not rely on AI to generate entire reports and must make required disclosures. However it would be \u2018quite wrong to think experts should not use AI at all unless it is specifically prohibited’ – in which case, ‘it would be hard to use a computer\u2019, he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018If you left AI behind, you would be left behind,\u2019 he added.\u00a0\u2018The question is not how it will be used but when it will be used,\u2019 he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018It is incredibly important to stay up to date. Being scared of AI is the very worst reaction to have. It is here to stay and we have to learn to use it,\u2019 Vos said, adding that the opportunities for court experts would not be reduced by AI but \u2018rather the reverse\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ignoring artificial intelligence is not an option – and blaming the technology \u2018for our own inadequacies\u2019 is a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-653679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}