AIJunior patent lawyers reportedly draft better with AI but show virtually no average gain on an unaided judgment task
A post describes a three-month randomized trial of 133 patent lawyers across 11 U.S. IP firms: juniors saw the largest AI-assisted drafting gains, while seniors improved on a later redlining test without AI.
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A post summarizing a three-month randomized trial of 133 patent lawyers across 11 U.S. IP firms says AI-assisted lawyers produced better drafts at both 10 and 90 days, with juniors seeing the largest gains. At 90 days, it reports drafting gains of 0.60 standard deviations for juniors and 0.30 for seniors. When researchers removed AI for a judgment-heavy redlining task, the pattern reversed: seniors who had used AI scored 0.45 standard deviations above senior controls, while juniors showed essentially no average gain, at -0.03 standard deviations.
