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There’s a difference between outsourcing legal reasoning to AI and using AI as a tool within a legal workflow, and legal education should teach that distinction rather than avoid it.
— AI at Berkeley Law, a student-run organization at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, in a statement given to Reuters, criticizing the school’s restrictive AI policy. While law schools across the country experiment with laptop bans, mandatory technology courses, and everything in between, students are concerned that excessive caution may leave them unprepared to use tools their future employers increasingly expect them to understand.
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