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Ethical Considerations regarding the Non-Use of Artificial Intelligence under LSO Rules of Professional Conduct

April 30, 2025

Society is facing a paradigm shift with the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), being effected by technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs), a type of AI trained on vast text data specifically to understand and generate human-like language. As AI invariably integrates into the legal profession, it presents both opportunities and challenges within the ethical framework established by the Law Society of Ontario (LSO). While discussions often focus on the risks inherent in using AI, and numerous practitioners vocalize opinions against it, I believe in the foreseeable future, AI will become as ubiquitous as email and the Internet. Indeed, we are standing on the precipice of another technological shift comparable to the one in around 1998.  The question will soon become, could a lawyer’s failure

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