Exploring AI’s Role in Legal Expert Panels: A Multi-Session Analysis
In a series of articles exploring the potential of AI expert panels to revolutionize the legal profession, Ralph Losey delves into an experiment involving the use of a custom GPT program, “Panel of AI Experts for Lawyers.” This innovative approach utilized a six-step, Centaur-like method to facilitate discussions on AI hallucinations—a phenomenon where AI systems generate misleading or irrelevant outputs. Over ten sessions, different compositions of expert panels, including a constant Devil’s Advocate, tackled the same question about AI hallucinations, revealing insights into their nature, causes, and potential solutions.
The experiment demonstrated that despite using the same question and method, the panels’ conclusions varied based on the experts’ composition, underscoring the influence of diverse professional backgrounds on the discussion outcomes. Notably, the panels explored the definition and differentiation of AI hallucinations from errors, their causes, and user control mechanisms, with recommendations emphasizing the importance of data quality, ethical considerations, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
The analysis of these discussions highlighted Panel Five as offering the highest quality discussion due to its comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach, integrating legal, ethical, technical, and cognitive insights. Panel Four was noted for its innovative use of cognitive psychology to understand and mitigate AI hallucinations.
The series concludes with reflections on the importance of understanding AI’s limitations and ethical implications within the legal profession. It underscores the need for continuous education, critical engagement, and the development of AI policies and standards to navigate the evolving landscape of law and technology responsibly. The articles, infused with humor and a recognition of the irreplaceable value of human insight, invite legal professionals and technologists to engage thoughtfully with AI advancements.
