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video and read the summary on Law Technology Today , 4 which is outside of the ABA members- only paywall. MICROSOFT RELEASES COPILOT FOR THE REST OF US If you are ready to subscribe to a powerful AI tool, Microsoft made a mid-January announce ment that Copilot was available for the rest of us to subscribe. The 300-seat requirement for firms has now been dropped, and individ uals can now subscribe. The Verge broke the story 5 and reminded us there are three versions of Copilot: Microsoft now has three differ ent versions of Copilot. There’s the regular Copilot that’s avail able free of charge to both con sumers and businesses, which is essentially a chatbot much like ChatGPT. Then, there’s the new Copilot Pro option that’s launching for consumers today for a $20 per month premium, offering AI-powered Copilot features inside Office apps and elsewhere. Microsoft now

also offers the same premium subscription with more features to businesses in the form of Copilot for Microsoft 365 at $30 per user per month pricing. 6 Since this just launched at the deadline for bar journal submis sion, I don’t have all the details available, but the pricing seems to depend on your Microsoft 365 plan, with home users paying $20 per month for fewer features than the $30 version offered to busi ness package subscribers. Using AI to quickly create PowerPoints from text will be a popular feature. For those of us who don’t have graphic design skills, creating graphics from text will be useful as well, even if you mainly use this for personal projects. OTHER AI DEVELOPMENTS LexisNexis is now offering Lexis+ AI, touting the service as “the fastest legal generative AI with conversational search, drafting, summarization, document analy sis and linked hallucination-free legal citations.” 7 Currently, a free trial is available.

will not lose their jobs. Someone will be needed to proofread the AI’s work product. I would esti mate I could proofread and revise 10 memos in the time it takes to draft one or two. So someone’s employment will be ultimately endangered. But, in many situ ations, AI usage will just allow workers to shift their focus to more high-level work and reduce time spent on the more mundane. Memos that are just reports based on information in the com pany’s system will be the first to be automated with no human review. The flood of new AI tools over the past year is very impressive. But adopting new technologies is a process that does take some time. Famed legal futurist Richard Susskind has opined that we are probably overestimating the short term impact of AI while underesti mating the long-term impact. These changes will be stressful and challenging. Change manage ment is challenging, especially for those who have been doing things in a similar manner for years. But there is simply no avoiding the changes caused by AI adoption in the legal profession. AI ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION IS NOW AVAILABLE In December 2023, I hosted a video roundtable on the ethical challenges of using generative AI in the legal field for the ABA Legal Technology Resource Center. The panel featured four experts: Damien Riehl, Ivy B. Grey, Jayne Reardon and Kenton Brice. We discussed the evolution and impact of AI on the legal profession, the benefits and limitations of AI tools, the ethical implications and regulations of AI and the integration of AI in law schools. The roundtable was summarized by Zoom’s AI com panion, which demonstrates the potential of AI. You can watch the

Jim Calloway moderates the December 2023 AI Roundtable Discussion. Top row, from left Jayne Reardon, OBA MAP Director Jim Calloway and Kenton Brice. Bottom row, from left Ivy B. Grey and Damien Riehl

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