Junior In-house Legal Roles Evolve into "AI Wranglers"

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Junior Roles Evolve into "AI Wranglers"

As AI adoption increases, junior roles within in-house legal teams are evolving. These "AI wranglers" are becoming crucial in managing and optimizing AI outputs. These AI-native junior lawyers scrutinize AI output, filter discrepancies, identify hallucinations, and ultimately pass on a higher volume of work than previously possible to management. They are also beginning to work with tech providers to train in-house AI systems to become business-facing, providing initial answers to requests from marketing or sales by incorporating relevant compliance and regulatory information alongside best practices and internal playbooks.

"Reviews of the accelerating uses of AI in legal remind me first of all of the famous exclamation by the radio reporter Herbert Morrison, watching the Hindenberg zeppelin explode in 1937: 'Oh, the humanity!' I wonder, in other words, what is becoming of the classic hallmarks of lawyers and lawyering: human understanding, human communication, human connection, and above all - professional judgment. Thoughtless AI deployment risks reducing lawyers to automatons. To avoid that outcome, AI must be humane. The entire profession, with tech developers, will need to rethink the answers to some fundamental questions. What are human lawyers for, and how do we train and organize those people?"

Michael Madison, Law Professor, University of Pittsburgh; Host, Future Law Podcast, USA