As legal professionals’ use of artificial intelligence tools is growing, so is their desire for more transparency and disclosures, even around using the technology in legal research or translation, according to Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s (BCLP) annual Arbitration Survey, which surveyed 221 respondents ranging from law firm lawyers, in-house counsel, arbitrators, academics and legal technology service providers.

Despite some of the industry’s concerns with consumer-grade generative AI tools like ChatGPT, the survey, which was released on Monday, found that about 28% of respondents had used ChatGPT in a professional context, whether it be for legal research, legal drafting, preparing summaries or nonlegal drafting tasks such as writing social media posts or press releases.