Michael J Bommarito II and Daniel Martin Katz recently published a paper on whether ChatGPT would be able to pass the US Bar Exam.  To practice law in the US, applicants must complete at least 7 years tertiary education, including 3 years at an accredited law school, before they are eligible to sit the Bar Exam.  The authors experimented on whether Open AI could pass the Bar exam.  Results were mixed,  but the authors concluded that Open AI will be capable of passing the Bar Exam in the very near future.  Click here to read about the experiment - https://the-decoder.com/gpt-4-could-pass-bar-exam-ai-researchers-say/

In a world first, US software company DoNotPay’s ‘robot lawyer’ will be appearing in a US Court representing a client charged with traffic offences.  Using machine learning to match text and voice recognition, combined with data sets from US legislation and case law, the robot will be able to formulate legal advice to the client in real time.  The robot won’t address the court directly, rather it will be accessible via the client’s smartphone, listening to the judge and prosecution and providing advice via headphones. Head here to read the full story featured in the SBS news - https://apple.news/AP0wd8f3ZTQOT5EZn8mPIiA

Dr Allan McCay from the University of Sydney Law School published a brilliant overview of the impact neurotechnologies could have on the law in July of this year.  This world-first report commissioned by the Law Society of England and Wales discussed how this technology could be applied to monitoring criminal offenders and lawyers in the future.  Since publishing, neurotechnology and the law has become a hot topic globally in conferences held in New York, Istanbul, Australia and the UK, and is set to hit the mainstream news with Elon Musk’s launch of Neuralink. You can learn more here - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/neurotechnology-law-update-allan-mccay/?trackingId=L147mOMNTumDI5LlRMKtbQ%3D%3D