Legal × AI: Powerful but Cautious
Contract review and compliance have large AI-support value, but it's an area where the cost of error is extremely high. It's safe to limit it to "pre-reading and organizing."
Work Where AI Helps
- Issue extraction from contracts: unfavorable clauses, omissions, plain-ifying jargon
- Comparison: diffs from your template, differences from past contracts
- Drafting regulations: drafts of internal policies/guidelines
- Research entry: organizing general thinking related to the issue
Absolute Rules
- Not a substitute for legal advice: final judgment is a lawyer/legal professional
- Mind fabricated clauses/precedents: AI fabricates nonexistent clauses. Always confirm with the original
- Confidentiality: mask counterpart info/NDA-covered, or use only internally approved tools
- Latest law: may not follow amendments. Cross-check with primary sources
Practical Pattern
For this contract draft (proper nouns redacted), list clauses that could disadvantage us by importance, separating alternative wording proposals and points to confirm with an expert.
Positioning
AI is a tool to raise you to "a state where you can talk to an expert with the issues in hand." It speeds review, it does not take over responsibility.
