Legal sector can use psychology to beat fear of AI

This case marks a historic first for AI in law. And for the legal sector, already losing sleep over automation and incoming regulations, the verdict serves as a massive wake-up call.

Researchers gave top AI models a classic attention test used in psychology and found a major flaw. While the models could correctly name colors in short lists, their performance deteriorated sharply as the task became longer and more complex. Some leading systems fell from over 90% accuracy to nearly complete failure.

The generative AI vendor is expanding into the legal industry in a move reminiscent of Anthropic’s legal AI deals.

Anthropic has launched a new set of AI-powered tools for the legal sector, expanding its Claude for Legal platform with specialised plug-ins and Model Context Protocol connectors targeting specific areas of law including commercial, privacy, corporate, employment, and AI governance. The new tools are designed to automate clerical legal work such as document search and […]

The opportunity to join a dynamic business and influence the wider legal sector holds increasing appeal

Science rarely produces identical outcomes. Mistaking this for failure turns caution into an excuse for inaction A new set of studies out this month suggests that as many as half of all results published in reputable journals in the social sciences can’t be replicated by independent analysis. This is part of a long-running problem across many research fields – most visibly in the social sciences and psychology, though concerns have also been raised in areas of biomedical research. The latest work is a seven-year project called Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (Score), which has now published three studies looking at 3,900 social science papers. It found that newer papers, and those published in journals requiring extensive sharing of underlying data, were more likely to be reproduced. Separately, medical research faces its own constraints: differing patient caseloads and limited sample sizes mean that, in practice, it can resemble the social sciences more than lab