Olugasa stated, “Let me lay it to rest; AI will not replace lawyers, and that is the truth. AI is incapable. It is merely a piece of technology. It modifies the game, the platform, and the narratives.
“What we need to do as lawyers is upskill and reskill to harness technology, but it will not replace lawyers. So, the only way to see this through is to reconsider how we interact with technology and employ artificial intelligence to our advantage,” he said. Olugasa, however, emphasised a caveat that there is always a need for due diligence by legal practitioners, as AI is only meant to enhance their work and not replace it.
He insisted that leveraging AI such as PrimeGPT and PrimsolGPT will give lawyers the needed propeller to launch into the league of the globally sought-after legal practitioners. Olugasa noted that, “We looked at how we can use this AI to help augment the visible challenges in the legal sector because, as legal practitioners, we have the onus of due diligence going further; we cannot go ahead and use the common AI that everybody uses, and at the same time, the profession cannot afford to stand aloof and be left out of the AI transformation.”