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Sharon Nelson Quoted in Bloomberg Law Article
June 13, 2023
Sensei’s president Sharon Nelson, was recently quoted in an article in Bloomberg Law entitled ” Paralegals Race to Stay Relevant as AI Threatens Their Future”, by Kaustuv Basu.
Excerpt:
For all the errors and fake information that generative AI throws up, it’s undeniable that it can identify and categorize documents much faster than a paralegal, sometimes within seconds, said Sharon Nelson, who travels around the country teaching attorneys, paralegals and legal assistants. “It’s got a lot smarter, a whole lot smarter, really, really quickly,” she said.
Nelson, the president of Sensei Enterprises, Inc, an information technology firm in Fairfax, Va., has put the question to ChatGPT itself: Why are paralegals so afraid of being replaced by AI?
Its answers: AI’s potential to automate tasks like document review, legal research and drafting contracts; paralegals’ own uncertainty about their skills, and its potential to devalue the human-contact portions of their work.
But the more she asks, the more she senses it doesn’t want to talk about putting paralegals out of work.