研究：AI提升初级专利律师即时表现，却可能抑制其长期成长
原标题：AI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth
AI 摘要
美国国家经济研究局（NBER）发表了一项为期三个月、覆盖11家美国知识产权律所133名专利律师的随机对照试验，使用Google Labs未发布的AI助手InFlow。结果显示，AI辅助显著提升了初级律师的专利起草表现，但在撤除AI后的审查任务中，只有资深律师保留了优势，初级律师则出现分化。研究提示AI可能加速部分新人的技能成长，也可能替代其判断力培养，引发对专业能力长期发展的担忧。
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AI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI assistance improves immediate performance, especially for junior lawyers. But when the AI is taken away, only senior attorneys retain the benefits. Whether AI assistance builds or erodes professional expertise is a contested question in research. A working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a nonprofit U.