Hello World: the First Dispatch from the Vt. Judiciary Comm. on Artificial Intelligence & the Courts

• Citation: Vol. 50 No. 2
• Publication year: 2024

Hello World: The First Dispatch from the Vermont Judiciary Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Courts Vol. 50 No. 2 Pg. 20 Vermont Bar Journal July 2024

WHAT'S NEW

by Ott Lindstrom, Esq.

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past several years, chances are you've heard about this new-fangled "artificial intelligence" thing. Ever since OpenAI released its flagship ChatGPT tool in November 2022, AI seems like the only thing anyone has been talking about, in entertainment, in business, and, of course, in the law.

The question is no longer "should lawyers use AI?" Whether or not lawyers "should," they absolutely are. Even if you personally aren't asking the chatbot du jour to spit out an outline for a residential lease or translate into modern English a dusty court case from the 1890s that's somehow still the most recent Vermont precedent for your motion, chances are the lawyer across the negotiating table or the courtroom probably is. There's no putting the

AI toothpaste back in its tube—it's here to stay, whether we like it or not.

But while the question of "should" has been answered (or, perhaps more...