Special Column by Attorney Shang-Lun Lin: Still Doubting AI? Top Lawyers Are Already Using It Like "Utilities"

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The use cases for AI in professional fields have become a reality, and employees and professionals in Taiwan must get accustomed to it as soon as possible. (Context: Attorney Lin Shang-lun's column: AI will not replace lawyers, but will make legal services accessible to an unimaginable dimension) (Background: Attorney Lin Shang-lun's column: With the GSAT results released, universities should really stop choosing liberal arts majors) On a lazy afternoon, I was having coffee with a "genius-level" friend. As we chatted, I felt a surge of emotions. He is one of the few people I know who can be called the "top of the top" among lawyers. He once worked at the best international law firm in Taiwan, then turned around and applied for a doctoral program at a top-five US law school, and after graduation, went straight into one of the top five law firms in the US. Honestly, in Taiwan, you could probably count people with such a background on two hands. That conversation made me deeply realize one thing: the distance between us and the world's elite is often just a wall of information. Even today, at dinner tables and on social media in Taiwan, people are anxiously discussing: "Is AI reliable?" "Will AI talk nonsense?" "Can it really be used for work?" This kind of skepticism and wait-and-see attitude is mainstream here, but on the other side of the world, in the world's most powerful country, the US, these are already outdated concerns. In the world of top-tier law firms, AI is no longer some future technology; it is like water, electricity, and the internet—something that must be available the moment you turn it on. It is infrastructure; it is daily life. He said that at their firm, everyone from senior partners worth hundreds of millions to summer interns who just joined is using AI. But their "use" is completely different from what we imagine. They don't treat AI as a wishing well, throwing all sorts of garbage data into it and then complaining that the results are inaccurate. Instead, they have established an extremely rigorous "feeding" process. There are dedicated teams that, like chefs treating three-Michelin-star ingredients, carefully process the most important data and the most essential precedents before "feeding" them to the AI. This refined knowledge becomes the shared wisdom of the entire team. This shows that they don't treat AI as a tool for laziness, but as a powerful partner that needs to be treated well and guided. The better the nutrients you give it, the more astonishing the results it returns to you. So, stop misunderstanding that using AI is "outsourcing work to machines." In fact, you are the chief architect who decides whether to build the Roman Empire or a thatched hut; AI is simply your most powerful construction team in history. When I hand it a one-hour meeting recording full of small talk and noise, its value lies in filtering out the nonsense for me and distilling the three most important strategies. The final judgment and decision-making always remain in my hands. This is not just a story about lawyers, but a real transformation happening across all industries. The real crisis is never whether AI will "replace" you, but that while others are already wielding the dragon-slaying sword of AI to slay demons and conquer new territories, you are still holding a rusty iron sword, or even questioning whether that blade is too sharp and might cut your hand. When the world's top players are already discussing how to make AI stronger and smarter, are we still asking questions that should have been answered ten years ago?

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