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<\/a>He said the product uses both prompt shields and guardrails, with prompt shields ensuring that users\u2019 queries remain within appropriate legal contexts, and guardrails ensuring that the outputs are properly sourced from Bloomberg Law\u2019s content.<\/p>\n\u201cWe will only return answers that are based on the content that we have within our system,\u201d Puglia said. \u201cWe do not go out and give general answers from outside of our sources.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bloomberg Law Answers draws its answers from both primary sources, including court opinions, statutes, and regulations, and secondary sources, such as practical guidance materials and books. Bloomberg Law is gradually expanding the content sets available to the AI tools, with each new addition undergoing extensive testing to maintain answer quality and reliability, Puglia said.<\/p>\n
Asked about the risk of hallucinations in the answers the AI is providing, Puglia acknowledged that hallucination risks remain inherent to gen AI technology, but said Bloomberg Law has focused heavily on managing those risks through both its content-grounding approach and extensive guardrails. With its prompt shields, the AI will explicitly decline to answer questions outside its scope.<\/p>\n
The tools use multiple AI models, Puglia said, including those from OpenAI and Anthropic, with Bloomberg Law selecting specific models based on particular use cases and performance requirements. The company maintains a team of machine learning engineers who evaluate new models as they become available.<\/p>\n
Future Plans<\/h3>\n
In the coming months, Bloomberg Law plans to release an expanded version of its AI assistant that will enable queries beyond document-specific interactions to broader research capabilities. This feature will incorporate tools such as jurisdictional comparisons, chart building, and citation treatments, according to Puglia.<\/p>\n
Even longer term, Bloomberg Law\u2019s development team is exploring how these AI tools might reshape legal research workflows more fundamentally.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look longer term, the way the technology is evolving, I do think that the way that you approach research does have the potential to dramatically change from a workflow perspective,\u201d Puglia said. \u201d \u2026 We could more seamlessly integrate research into their day-to-day tasks, and it\u2019s not a separate standalone task.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bloomberg Law is also considering how its content and technology might integrate with other platforms and tools that law firms are using, including Microsoft\u2019s Copilot, recognizing that the traditional model of accessing legal research through a dedicated website may evolve, he said.<\/p>\n
I asked Puglia whether Bloomberg is providing training and support to users to help them transition into these new tools. He emphasized that user adoption of these tools is completely optional, and said that Bloomberg Law is working with firms to accommodate their specific compliance requirements and comfort levels with the technology.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first thing we do is we don\u2019t force it,\u201d Puglia said. \u201cWe work with our clients to make sure that every firm still has their legal processes and reviews that they have to go through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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