Study: AI tutors edge out law faculty Image source: Images 2.0 / The RundownThe Rundown: A new study led by Stanford ran a blind test of AI legal tutoring, asking 16 contract professors to judge anonymized answers from their peers and from two of Google’s AI systems — with the faculty siding with the AI outputs 75% of the time. The details: The study tested contract-law office-hours questions, a setting where strong answers need judgment and critical thinking instead of just one correct answer. Sixteen professors from 14 schools blindly judged 2,918 matchups between their own answers and those of Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and NotebookLM.Faculty chose Gemini 2.5 Pro and NotebookLM responses 75% of the time, with only a single top professor staying level with the models in evaluations. Extending the testing with an AI stand-in judge, the team ranked nine more systems, with Claude Opus 4.7 on top and all models beating the professors. Why it matters: Early models like GPT-4 were already passing the bar exam, but this study puts AI in tougher, more subjective judgment situations on office hours contract law questions. AI’s rollout into the education world is still controversial and jagged, but areas like on-demand tutoring can help change the learning process for the better. |
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