AIREP – AI and Regulated Professions

In medicine, psychotherapy, the legal and notarial professions, and tax consultancy, artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of everyday working life. It promises more reliable diagnostics and the largely automated drafting of legal submissions, expert reports and client correspondence. At the same time, the technology remains prone to errors: systems ‘hallucinate’ and sometimes invent case law that has never existed, and how their results are arrived at is often incomprehensible to users. This raises fundamental questions, particularly in professions with their own professional regulatory frameworks. Legally, because regulation sometimes requires a human decision and thus sets limits on the use of AI, but also ethically, psychologically and socially.

The ‘AI and Regulated Professions (AIREP)’ project group is investigating how the use of AI in regulated professions can be structured in such a way that legal duties of care and organisational obligations are upheld, whilst at the same time respecting the right to self-determination of both those receiving care and those working with AI. To this end, it combines legal, empirical and historical research with practical case studies.

The project aims to develop a nationally applicable governance framework for the responsible use of profession-specific AI systems, bringing together perspectives from law, psychology and medicine.