Is Your Artificial Inelligence Guilty of the Unauthorized Practice of Law?

As with other technological advances, artificial intelligence (AI) will dramatically affect law practice in coming years. Among other things, AI implicates several ethics issues with which our profession will have to wrestle. One basic question involves AI's essential nature. Is it the practice of law?

If so, non-lawyers relying on AI to advise third parties may be committing the criminal unauthorized practice of law, and lawyers insufficiently involved in such a process may be guilty of assisting in such unauthorized practice of law (UPL).