Stories of lawyers’ artificial intelligence mishaps have highlighted the risks of using generative AI for legal work, but that doesn’t mean attorneys should shy away from the new technology, panelists on an ethics webinar said Friday.

Elias Mickle Kennedy partner Luciano Patruno and the Law Offices of Daniel J. Siegel’s Daniel Siegel told attendees of the Philadelphia Bar Association program that AI can be a valuable tool for lawyers, so long as they grasp what it can do and how it can go wrong.