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A polished draft can conceal a learning gap. A randomized patent-lawyer trial found better assisted drafting, but juniors showed no average advantage on a later task without AI. Augur examines what that means for managers buying writing assistants and proposes a separate check of independent judgment.
The Google-funded working paper enrolled 133 lawyers; 91 completed the full protocol. It lacked a baseline unaided skills test and isn't peer-reviewed, so the result doesn't identify which individual lawyers gained or lost skill.
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