Exploring the Ethics of AI in Legal Writing and Blogging

Lukasz Ostrowski has a great piece over on Medium about the ethics of writing with AI.

I’m in the law, where I’d guess the majority of blogging and digital publishing lawyers have thrown ethics out the window already by paying others to write content for them and publishing the content in their own name.

For the lawyers who write their own blog posts, here’s some excellent points from Ostrowski – with my commentary – when it comes to using AI in writing.

• Who created the work, you or AI? Who owns the IP?
• Can AI exhibit creativity and emotion?
• Does AI’s speed in writing and journalism compromise depth?
• Though some fear job displacement, we have the potentional for AI colaboration with the writer – as with Lou AI on LexBlog, Inc.’s blogging platform.
• AI can handle repetitive tasks, enabling the writer to focus on the creative – as I have done here, asking AI to bullet the points in Ostrowski’s piece so I could choose and modify the points I wanted.
• New roles may emerge for humans to curate and edit AI-generated content. No question, especially in the area of the law where lawyers, law firms and publishers will curate and summmarize legal developments.
• Industry ethics/transparency standards are likely to be established, which standards could be policed by AI.

Ostrowski, as do I, sees a collaborative evolution of AI and human creativity. AI can inspire new forms and styles in human writing.

AI amplifies the passion, experience and care of the blogging lawyer.