“What AI can’t replace are the practical aspects of law, whether that be things like client interactions, courtroom presence, oral advocacy, etc., and specifically, the ethical decision-making that comes along with the practice a lot. With AI tools, there’s going to become an over-reliance on them,” said Theodore W. Ramage, UND law student. Students can use it to practice things like legal analysis and integrate it thoughtfully, but it’s still evolving. In one case, ChatGPT actually passed the uniform bar exam, placing in the 90th percentile. “And this tells us that if a machine can excel at a test designed to measure legal proficiency, it’s likely that the bar exam and legal education as a whole needs to evolve,” said Ramage.
