AI is making legal expertise more accessible. The curtain is being pulled back. But if anyone can get answers from a machine, where does that leave the profession?
In this episode, I’m joined by Stephanie Sylvestre, Co-Founder of Avatar Buddy, TEDx speaker, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow, and a technology leader with over 30 years of experience spanning Burger King, Subway, HP, and The Children's Trust.
Stephanie is now helping organisations build AI-powered digital twins and responsible AI systems designed to make legal expertise available not just to those who already have everything.
As someone outside the legal profession, Stephanie brings a fresh perspective to some of the biggest questions facing lawyers today. We explore how AI is changing legal work, where the opportunities lie and who the future belongs to in the legal profession.
Whether you're excited by AI, sceptical of it or simply trying to work out what’s worth paying attention to and what’s not, this episode is for you.
Covered in this episode:
- How AI is changing the legal profession and what remains uniquely human.
- Why AI is removing traditional barriers to legal knowledge.
- The difference between bespoke AI solutions and generic LLMs.
- How much trust lawyers should place in AI-generated responses.
- What responsible AI actually looks like in practice.
- The opportunities and risks presented by agentic AI.
- Who is accountable when an AI system gets something wrong.
- How digital twins are being used in professional services.
- How AI affects legal pricing models.
- When organisations should avoid implementing agentic AI.
- The future role of lawyers in an AI world.
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Avatar Buddy - https://avatarbuddy.co/
RMOK Legal- https://www.rmoklegal.com/
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