Artificial intelligence viral in studies but attention to use, limits and rights

The use of artificial intelligence is growing at an exponential rate in law firms and in companies, where increasingly high-performance and customised tools are being developed, but in order to avoid being overwhelmed by the second (or third) digital revolution, awareness, clarity of objectives and 'confidence' in dealing with a tool that is as powerful as it is delicate, and in any case always and only a 'tool' are needed. These were some of the points discussed on Wednesday 1 October in Milan at the presentation of the second 'Legal Tech and Ai Report' edited by Gruppo 4C in collaboration with Gruppo 24 Ore, an initiative that merges the expertise of companies aimed at the professional and publishing worlds, universes that are increasingly transversal and interdisciplinary, as underlined by Alessandro Renna and Eraldo Minella.

Artificial intelligence must not represent 'replacement but an accompaniment to the work of the professional,' said Vittorio Albanese, lawyer at the Politecnico di Milano, head of an internal structure that is agile but capable of responding to more than 300 solicitations (consultancies) a year - and which already uses Ai in an 'ancillary' function. Ai which, it is always good to remember, has major problems of coexistence with the protection of the fundamental rights of the individual, added Augusto Aguilar Catahorro, associate professor of constitutional law, problems exacerbated (or originated?) by the total opacity of the training of proprietary algorithms.

And in any case, when it comes to professional employment,' added Francesco Rotondi, managing partner of LabLaw and expert advisor to the Cnel, 'one must first ask oneself what the objective one intends to pursue is and only then think about the uses and the organisation of work of study in function of the Ai: "After all, it is a reorganisation of work not unlike the one that transformed the labour lawyer from 'litigator' to consultant 20 years ago. And beware, however, of the attempt of de-responsabilisation pursued by the new big-techs through the recognition of the legal subjectivity of artificial intelligence: a very serious blunder, according to Ernesto Belisario. senior partner of E-lex, because it would bring with it again, 30 years later, a new 'immunity' of the neo-oligarchs of tech.

As for the pursuit of norms, the new criminal offences, starting with the aggravating circumstance of the use of Ai, cannot work in the face of a completely different scenario compared to the pillars of the outdated penal code, said Maurizio Bortolotto, while Patrizia Pasetti, head of Legal Governance at Tim, and Alberto Moneta, Data protection and Ai senior manager at Engineering Group, recounted the difficulties - successful - of modifying corporate culture and organisation to be compliant with an endless field of norms.