What are the risks of relying on AI legal advice?

Relying on AI for legal advice poses significant risks and dangers that individuals should be aware of. AI systems can generate inaccurate or false information or advice known as “hallucinations”.

The risk of relying on AI for dealing with a legal matter include:

Legal cases require human judgment, intuition, expertise, and experience to navigate the unique complexities of each case. AI tends to provide generic answers that may not be applicable or relevant to a person’s specific legal situation.

The risk that the legal information provided by AI is false, inaccurate, not up to date or not applicable to English law.

The misinterpretation of legal principles and procedure, and their application to specific cases.

Unlike AI, a human lawyer has a professional and ethical obligation to provide accurate and competent advice specific to an individual case and the facts. 

Quite simply there is no substitute to receiving specific legal advice from a qualified human.