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© ILTA and Thomson Reuters 2026. Core AI Platforms & Types It is important to differentiate AI platforms (categories of tools) from AI types (underlying tech- nologies). These AI types can be overlapping: any single tool may incorporate multiple AI types. Platforms What It Is Legal Usage Examples General-Purpose AI Platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, etc.) Widely available consumer-fac- ing AI assistants built on large language models (LLMs). Capable of handling a broad range of tasks through a general purpose conversational interface. Unlike legal-specific or enterprise tools, they may lack controls for accuracy, confidentiality, data se- curity, and workflow integration. Basic research on topics; initial orientation to unfamil- iar legal concepts; summariz- ing a document or topic Legal-Specific or Enterprise AI Platforms AI tools specifically designed for use by legal professionals and their organizations. Legal research with verified, jurisdiction-specific citation; contract drafting and review; document review; due dili- gence analysis; deposition and transcript analysis; drafting of briefs, memos, and pleadings AI Type What It Is Legal Usage Examples Generative AI (GenAI) A category of AI that produces new text, images, programming code, or other content in response to a prompt. Powered by LLMs. Drafting contracts or memos; summarizing opinions; generating legal research outlines Agentic AI Executes sequences of autono- mous actions across other tools and systems with minimal further step-by-step human direction. Due diligence pipelines; multi-database legal research agents; regulatory compli- ance monitoring; document management; time and billing; CRM; docket management Predictive AI Analyzes historical data to pro- duce patterns, classifications, scores, rankings, or outcome probabilities. Ediscovery; privilege review; litigation outcome scoring A I G U I D E L I N E S E R I E S | A I G U I D E F O R L E G A L P R O F E S S I O N A L S : A F O U N D A T I O N A L O V E R V I E W 3