---
title: "Risk Outlook 2026 - Using artificial intelligence"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/ai-rules/b12-au-vic-victorian-legal-services-board-risk-outlook-2026-using-artificial-intel"
type: "ai_rule"
site: "AI Law Framework"
issuer: "Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner"
status: "Regulator report"
jurisdiction: "Victoria"
source: "https://lsbc.vic.gov.au/lawyers/risk-outlook/risk-outlook-2026"
---

# Risk Outlook 2026 - Using artificial intelligence

> Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner, Victoria.

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## About this rule

- Issuer: Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner
- Body type: Regulator
- Type: Regulator report
- Date: Date not stated
- Date on the page: 2026-04-29
- Confidence: High
- Jurisdiction: [Victoria](https://ailawframework.com/jurisdictions/victoria.md)

## Summary

VLSB+C's 2026 risk outlook names AI as a professional competency risk, encouraging responsible use while warning that unverified GenAI output breaches professional obligations and may lead to disciplinary action.

## Points recorded from the source

- Almost 40% of Victorian lawyers use GenAI tools, per the Legal Services Research Centre
- Lawyers must personally verify GenAI outputs, including reading cited sources, and not generate outputs they cannot verify
- Principals should set clear GenAI policies, confirm tool security and confidentiality, and train staff
- Failures to verify AI material are taken extremely seriously and may lead to regulatory or disciplinary action
- Lawyers should check whether clients used GenAI to produce documents for their matter

## Verify note

"Last updated on 29 April 2026" shown on page.

## Source

[Read the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner source](https://lsbc.vic.gov.au/lawyers/risk-outlook/risk-outlook-2026)

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