Law school is a time for a student to learn legal skills required for the practice of law. The promulgation of artificial intelligence (AI) and its use by law students would stymie the educational process of the law school curricular and noncurricular learning. Therefore, let us allow law students to learn the proper skills and habits of a lawyer before offering unreliable short-cuts to the mix. In fact, utilization of AI short-cuts can lead to ineffective and unethical results.

The role of AI and especially ChatGPT could be a game changer in legal education on the same scale that the introduction of personal computers changed legal education. Having answers to legal questions at your fingertips is convenient and easy using ChatGPT but it is NOT reliable. Using ChatGPT is not only like handing in someone else’s work product but not knowing if that work product is from a good student! Law schools must be clear with their Honor Code language that ChatGPT cannot replace learning and cannot be used ethically in the student’s work.