Last year, as ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence chatbots were taking the world by storm,
’s deputy general counsel, Douwe Groenevelt, said he envisioned “a new potential role that could bridge the gap between AI and our legal team”. The position called for a candidate who could write generative AI prompts — the queries that must be fed into an AI tool to generate the desired output — and could train up colleagues. The only catch: the job didn’t exist.
’s chief legal counsel Sandrine Auffret. Lawyers have been using other types of AI for years, in the form of tools for contract management and e-discovery. But generative AI is different, Auffret says, as it “seems to be genuinely capable of transforming our legal service delivery model and having a much more substantial impact”.