ChatGPT on Campus: Law Schools Wrestle With Emerging AI Tools

Law schools are weighing how to integrate rapidly improving artificial intelligence into the classroom as the legal industry grapples with the technology.

“It’s a fool’s game to ban it entirely,” Polk Wagner, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, said of artificial intelligence and tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Students need to become fluent in what AI can and cannot do” in order to toe the emerging ethical line, he said.

Some major law firms have started to experiment with ChatGPT and other generative software, which uses AI to generate text, images or designs, to write legal briefs, ...