Attorneys Warned to Vet That Tools Billed as Gen AI Are Genuine

As more tech companies roll out tools labeled as AI, legal leaders need to be wary of taking those claims at face value, lawyers said at the Association of Corporate Counsel annual meeting in Philadelphia Wednesday.

Whether a tech tool actually offers generative AI capabilities has implications for not only the usefulness of the product but also how the legal department should vet it. Many tools that are touted as “AI” aren’t powered by generative artificial intelligence but instead by machine learning.

“Is this actually this high risk tool that we’re talking about or is it something that we’ve been ...