Elon Musk’s xAI Business Seeks ‘AI Legal Tutor’

xAI, which owns Twitter and the Grok genAI platform, is looking for an ‘AI Legal and Compliance Tutor’. The Elon Musk-controlled business said that the new hire will ‘enhance xAI’s AI models by providing high-quality data annotations and inputs tailored to legal and compliance contexts’.

It went on to explain that whoever is hired will ‘leverage your expertise in regulatory compliance, contract analysis, legal research, and dispute resolution to support the training of AI systems’.

And that’s got several aspects to it. The first, and most likely, scenario is that the legal world is a notable chunk of the total text corpus of humanity, so having a more refined way of understanding such ‘content’ is going to be important for Grok.

The second point is where it gets more spicy: is this the beginning of xAI getting really interested in the legal sector?

The job description continues: ‘You will collaborate with technical teams to refine annotation tools and curate impactful data, ensuring our models effectively capture real-world legal and compliance dynamics’.

So, as noted, maybe this is just xAI being practical and wanting to improve its legal text understanding so it provides better results to Grok users in general. But, it could be more. One never knows for sure where Musk is going to head next.

A third option is that this is all about internal needs related to the company’s own legal team. We shall see.

And if you are interested, or just curious, here’s some more:

‘Responsibilities

• Utilize proprietary software to provide accurate input and labels for legal and compliance projects, ensuring high-quality data for AI model training.
• Deliver curated, high-quality data for scenarios involving regulatory compliance, contract analysis, legal research, and dispute resolution.
• Collaborate with technical staff to support the training of new AI tasks and contribute to the development of innovative technologies.
• Assist in designing and improving efficient annotation tools tailored for legal and compliance data.
• Select and analyze complex problems in legal and compliance fields aligned with your expertise to enhance AI model performance.
• Interpret, analyze, and execute tasks based on evolving instructions, maintaining precision and adaptability.

Required Qualifications

• Professional experience in legal, compliance, or related fields (e.g., compliance officer, lawyer, paralegal, legal secretary, judicial law clerk, arbitrator, mediator, administrative law judge, court reporter, or title examiner).
• Proficiency in reading and writing informal and professional English.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Excellent reading comprehension and ability to exercise autonomous judgment with limited data.
• Passion for technological advancements and innovation in legal and compliance processes.’

One point that is especially of note is the pay, ‘$45/hour – $75/hour’ – which seems quite low for legal expertise, even if they’re primarily doing annotation.