The Fourth Of July Celebrates What Lawyers Can Do, And AI Cannot
The Fourth Of July Celebrates What Lawyers Can Do, And AI Cannot
Publish Date: 2026-07-02 02:15:00
Source Domain: www.forbes.com
- The Fourth of July celebrates the professional lawyers who risked their careers and lives to sign the Declaration of Independence.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to challenge assumptions about law profession, raising questions about the need for few or no lawyers given AI’s capabilities.
- The most valuable aspect of lawyers lies not in what the law says, but whether those in power are obeying it.
- The signers of the Declaration of Independence had the courage to recognize and act on constitutional failure despite their promising careers and they still matter because they exercised judgment.
- As AI becomes more capable, human judgement is increasingly valuable in choosing among competing values and risks.
- AI cannot replicate the moral responsibility and conscience required to make these judgments, or to speak truth to power as the founding lawyers did.
