You need to be both logical & creative when working with AI. Sam Bock at Relativity discusses building integrated skills in the age of AI here!

In her post, titled (wait for it!) Avoid Split-Brain Thinking: Building Integrated Skills in the Age of AI  (available here), discusses that in the legal profession, skill balancing is crucial. Fundamentally, this space requires all the parts of one’s brain to work in symphony: logical thinking must evaluate data and weigh possible outcomes, while creativity pulls inspiration from those analyses to build narrative strategies and deliver impactful arguments.

Sometimes, legal data intelligence work requires analytical, linear thinking. When you’re focusing on repetitive tasks like data or time entry, or even more methodical efforts like citation checks and compliance reviews, this sort of order-of-operations-based cognitive work is essential.

Other responsibilities are more creative and open-ended, requiring a unique synthesis of big-picture thinking and detail-orientation that builds brilliant legal arguments.

AI helps automate and streamline many tasks, which means less of the rote work may fall on human shoulders. It can also help augment and accelerate creative efforts by assisting with brainstorming, drafting, and strategic analysis and fact building.

This feels like a win-win: suddenly, you have tools to help you go faster across the board and really focus on the good stuff. But is there reasonable concern that leaning on AI in the wrong ways can let its power weaken an individual’s skills? How do you get from split-brain to integrated thinking? And how can you build integrated expertise in practice? Find out here, it’s only one click! If you don’t click, you’re not in your right mind! 😉

So, what do you think? How are you building integrated skills in the age of AI? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

Image created using DALL-E 3, using the term “robot lawyer with a large brain with each side of the brain a different color wearing a suit”.

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