Final month, when Anthropic, developer of the favored AI assistant Claude, introduced a major push into legal, a lot of the protection within the media and the excitement on social media targeted on what the announcement meant for legislation corporations, in-house authorized groups, and the authorized tech ecosystem.
However the much less talked about facet of the story was doubtlessly the extra impactful – Anthropic’s express dedication to entry to justice, highlighted by a direct partnership with the Free Law Project and its CourtListener free authorized analysis platform. Abruptly, anybody with a authorized drawback and a chat window may entry verified, authoritative authorized supplies, considerably lowering the chance of utilizing a common AI assistant to reply authorized questions.
Because the Free Legislation Undertaking itself put it: “A response constructed on verified CourtListener information is categorically completely different from one constructed on even the most effective mannequin alone.”
In at present’s episode, host Bob Ambrogi sits down with Mike Lissner, govt director and co-founder of the Free Legislation Undertaking, the nonprofit behind CourtListener, and Nathan Dahlberg, the Free Legislation Undertaking’s AI developer who truly constructed the CourtListener connector. They get into what was introduced and why it issues, how the know-how works beneath the hood, and, most significantly, the larger questions it raises — in regards to the potential affect on entry to justice, and on the authorized analysis business.
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