What are the trends impacting AI for legal professionals? This blog post by Sam Bock at Relativity discusses 5 key topics shaping AI in 2025.

The post, titled (wait for it!) What’s Shaping AI in 2025: 5 Key Topics to Explore (available here), discusses (wait for it again!) 5 key topics shaping AI in 2025 (duh!). Here’s one of them:

Ethical Questions about AI

The most fundamental question for anyone taking a first, hard look at AI for legal is: “Is this responsible?”

There are a lot of nuances to this question:

• Can legal professionals use AI to conduct highly sensitive work while safeguarding their clients’ best interests, privacy, and data?
• Are AI-powered legal applications built responsibly, with respect to issues of data privacy, intellectual property, sustainability, and cybersecurity?
• How does one preserve the integrity and humanity of legal work while using AI to supplement efforts and accomplish rote tasks?
• Does AI expand access to justice, or stifle it?

All of these are valid concerns and should be examined with care before you embrace AI, both in general and in the use of any specific tool.

As Sam notes, there will be sessions at Relativity Fest (coming up in just 2 weeks!), that will enable you to dig deeper, ask these crucially important questions, and build confidence in the path forward:

• From Access Ramps to AI: Physical Access and Access to Justice
• Navigating the Ethical Maze: Generative AI in e-Discovery

So, what are four other key topics shaping AI in 2025? Find out here, it’s only one click! Clicking is the key to finding out! 😉

So, what do you think? What is shaping AI for your organization this year? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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