Aiming for Accuracy, Group Launches Legal AI Adoption Index; Invites Law Firms and Legal Teams to Self-Report

A newly launched impartial initiative goals to develop an correct, holistic and clear index of AI adoption amongst legislation companies, in-house authorized departments, and particular person authorized professionals.

Known as the AI Adoption Index, the group says its goal is to carry better transparency to the present state of AI adoption within the authorized trade “and take away hype, hyperbole and FOMO from the dialog.”

The Index has been based by two London-based authorized expertise consultants: Tara L. Waters, a former legislation agency accomplice and former chief digital officer at international legislation agency Ashurst, and Jana Blount, a former lawyer and former authorized innovation supervisor at international agency DLA Piper.

(Waters was venture lead on the Vals Authorized AI Report that I wrote about right here in February. This new index has no affiliation with Vals.)

The index creators are inviting authorized professionals globally to take part in considered one of three surveys tailor-made to legislation companies, in-house authorized groups, and particular person authorized professionals.

They count on to publish the preliminary survey leads to June and to refresh them yearly. Entry to the index might be free and open to anybody.

These wishing to take part within the survey might achieve this at these hyperlinks:

Legislation companies, authorized groups and authorized professionals ought to full the survey related to their function:

Legislation agency consultant: https://kinds.workplace.com/r/CMx4y2xUG6.
In-house authorized division consultant: https://kinds.workplace.com/r/pGue58B8Kf.
Particular person authorized professionals: https://kinds.workplace.com/r/qvjPfD5EkD.

The creators ask that organizations make solely a single entry, whereas any variety of people from inside a corporation are welcome to answer the authorized professionals survey.

In an announcement of the index, the creators say that they’re ranging from the premise that true adoption requires extra than simply device deployment, and that for a corporation to attain wide-scale utilization and notice a device’s advantages takes time and centered effort.

In line with that, they’ve designed the index round a newly outlined adoption framework that focuses on 4 key parts:

Alignment: AI is strategically supported by management and aligned with the organisation’s targets for its enterprise, folks and shoppers.
Entry & consciousness: The organisation ensures its folks have entry to, and consciousness of, out there AI instruments and find out how to use them.
Capacity & enablement: Assist and incentivisation is supplied to allow the safe and efficient use of AI within the office, and to construct new skillsets and mindsets.
Augmentation: New worth is being created and measured for organisations, their folks and their shoppers.

“Whereas different trade research already present wealthy information protecting sentiment, intention, use instances and particular person device deployment, few have a look at the query of adoption from a number of views or segments and nearly none are constructed upon an outlined framework for adoption,” the creators say.

They hope their extra holistic method will lead to a extra correct and multi-dimensional image of AI adoption because it at the moment stands.