AI Legal Companion: Enhancing Access to Justice and Legal Literacy for the Public

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the legal sector to address the challenge of legal complexity and initiating the development of customized AI Legal Companion as the solution to improve access to justice, enhance legal literacy among the public and introduce new innovations to the legal field. Qualitative research is used during the research and an interview is conducted with the legal expert to get deeper information from the legal perspective in utilizing AI in legal sectors. To improve the AI knowledge base, the utilization of advanced AI techniques, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is used to provide the AI technologies, particularly ChatGPT models to provide quick, more accurate, and easily understandable legal information to the users and help people with lack of legal information with legal assistance and education. The paper focuses on the potential of AI being implemented in the legal domain and emphasizes the importance of collaboration between legal experts and technologies. The result of this paper shows that AI can provide easy access to justice and legal literacy for the public, but the legal sector is enormous therefore, human legal assistance is still important to address the misinformation provided by the AI.