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The news about Steven Schwartz, the attorney who asked ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot, to find cases relevant to his client’s lawsuit only to submit a brief full of bogus caselaw, spread gleefully fast, as embarrassing news does. And although we shook our heads in disapproval, I suspect many attorneys were grateful to Mr. Schwartz. His blunder suggested that we are not so easily replaceable by AI. And it couldn’t have come at a better time—according to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, AI is putting 44% of legal jobs at risk. GPT-4 passed the Uniform Bar Exam (UBE), and it didn’t just barely squeak by: it scored in the 90th percentile, outperforming the average real life test taker. If the legal cartel were not beholden to so many ethics rules, I might suspect Mr. Schwartz had been planted to take one for the team.