Security & ethics of legal AI
Why legal AI should be grounded, not generative-only
A purely generative model will answer confidently whether or not it has the facts. For legal work, that confidence is the danger.
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A generative model is trained to produce plausible text. Plausible is not the same as true, and in legal work the gap between the two is where malpractice lives. The right architecture starts from evidence and refuses to answer when the evidence isn't there.
EdgeLex grounds answers in your own documents, emails, and the actual court rules, and attaches citations a reviewer can check. When an answer can't be grounded, it is blocked rather than guessed — the system would rather say nothing than invent an authority.
This is the inverse of the cloud black-box default, where a model generates first and citation is an afterthought. Grounding first, generating second, is the only posture that survives a court's scrutiny.
See how this works in EdgeLex.