The video emphasizes the necessity of “fiduciary grade AI” in legal and tax professions, ensuring 100% accuracy through a combination of authoritative proprietary content, expert human oversight, strict data privacy, and dedicated customer support. This approach guarantees reliable, precise AI outputs essential for high-stakes professional work, safeguarding careers, licenses, and client trust.
The discussion centers on the critical need for 100% accuracy in AI applications used in legal and tax professions, where errors can jeopardize careers, licenses, and client trust. Unlike many consumer AI products that may produce occasional inaccuracies, the speaker emphasizes the concept of “fiduciary grade AI,” a standard designed specifically for professionals who must be absolutely correct in their work. This level of AI output is deterministic rather than probabilistic, ensuring reliable and precise results essential for legal briefs, tax returns, contracts, and opinions.
To achieve fiduciary grade AI, the company leverages four key pillars developed over decades, even centuries. First, they utilize proprietary content from trusted sources like Westlaw, Practical Law, and Checkpoint, which is continuously updated and maintained by thousands of experts. This rich, authoritative data foundation allows their AI to generate outputs that are far more accurate and reliable than those trained on generic or publicly available data sets.
Second, the company employs thousands of on-site experts, including reference attorneys and certified public accountants, who not only create and maintain the content but also actively train the AI agents. This human oversight ensures that the AI behaves like a highly experienced professional, further enhancing the quality and trustworthiness of the results it produces.
Third, data privacy and protection are paramount. The company guarantees that customer inputs will never be incorporated into the AI’s output, a commitment that few other AI providers offer. This safeguard is crucial for professionals handling sensitive information, ensuring confidentiality and compliance with legal and ethical standards.
Lastly, the company supports its AI products with dedicated call centers staffed by knowledgeable professionals. Users of products like Westlaw Advantage AI can receive personalized assistance to understand AI-generated outputs, review the reasoning and citations behind conclusions, and validate results. This human support layer provides an additional level of confidence and reassurance for fiduciary professionals relying on the AI for critical decision-making.
Useful Links
- Practical Law by Thomson Reuters — Supports the claim about proprietary content enabling fiduciary grade AI.
- Checkpoint by Thomson Reuters — Directly related to the AI’s accuracy in tax-related legal work.
- Westlaw Advantage AI Product Documentation — Explains the AI product and support mechanisms that ensure fiduciary grade accuracy.