KNOWLEDGE CENTRE

Last week, I was experimenting with ChatGPT for tax calculations and interpretations. Even with detailed prompts and guidance from someone who actually works in this space, the AI consistently stumbled on common Income Tax Act (Canada) (the “Income Tax Act”) provisions. If a machine trained on the entire Internet can't properly interpret our Canadian tax laws, what does that say about expecting ordinary Canadians to comply with them? Here’s my take on the current state of AI

The legal profession's biggest problem isn't technology, regulation, or competition. It's ego. We've spent centuries building a profession based on exclusivity, complexity, and intellectual superiority. We call it "practicing law" as if we're still students, yet we expect clients to treat us like oracles. I see lawyers creating artificial barriers to make services seem more valuable. We use legal jargon to maintain information asymmetry (see what I did there?). We price based