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The skill was knowing where to look.
The law sat in printed volumes. Knowing which one to open was the skill.
Dickie Woods
Legal research for the age of AI.
Verifying AI-generated legal answers through dual modular redundancy.
The thesis
Every time the research tool changed, the lawyer's skill changed with it.
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The skill was the query.
Westlaw and Lexis put every volume behind a search box. Lawyers learned a new grammar.
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The skill is judgment.
Ask a model and it answers in confident prose, right or wrong. Knowing when to trust it is the new skill. A tool can bypass that skill, or build it.
Dual modular redundancy
One question. Two independent answers. You decide.
Run two channels that can fail differently, compare them, and treat disagreement as the signal. Engineers call it dual modular redundancy. Dickie Woods puts it on your screen.
From the law
The sourced answer
Built from the statute, regulations, agency manuals and case law, a citation on every claim. Every quotation and government link is mechanically checked against the retrieved sources.
From the model
The independent answer
The same question put to an ordinary AI, with no sight of the first answer. Shown at equal size.
Where they part company
A third reading names the difference.
It names where the two agree and where they diverge. Agreement is evidence, not proof.
The comparator is you
Judgment, designed in
The interface is built to keep you in the loop.
It shows the difference.
Where the answers disagree is where an unaided AI drifts on your question.
It says what was checked.
Every answer states what the mechanical check examined.
It would rather say nothing.
If nothing usable is found, it says so and refunds the question.
Two front doors. One discipline.
Dickie Woods gives general information about U.S. immigration law. It is not legal advice and does not make Lemmy Law your lawyer. For advice about your own situation, speak to a qualified attorney.