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Does AI assistance enhance or erode expertise?

Whether AI assistance builds or erodes professional expertise is unsettled. In a pre-registered three-month randomized controlled trial, we gave 133 practicing patent lawyers at eleven U.S.

Does AI assistance enhance or erode expertise?

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Whether AI assistance builds or erodes professional expertise is unsettled.

In a pre-registered three-month randomized controlled trial, we gave 133 practicing patent lawyers at eleven U.S.

intellectual property law firms access to a custom AI drafting assistant and measured both their performance while using AI and their professional judgment […] The post Does AI assistance enhance or erode...

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Whether AI assistance builds or erodes professional expertise is unsettled. In a pre-registered three-month randomized controlled trial, we gave 133 practicing patent lawyers at eleven U.S. intellectual property law firms access to a custom AI drafting assistant and measured both their performance while using AI and their professional judgment […] The post Does AI assistance enhance or erode expertise?

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