Progress in the development of so-called generative AI with applications such as ChatGPT has reached a point where there no longer is any doubt that artificial intelligence (AI) will become an integral part of legal work. AI will be used as an assistance system, or as an autonomous solution for answering simple questions, in law firms and legal departments as well as in courts, for administrative authorities, and probably also in the context of lawmaking.

For lawyers working with AI, it will be essential to know the strengths and weaknesses of the systems to be able to assess the opportunities and risks associated with its use correctly. An objective and standardized assessment requires a uniform catalog of criteria and a uniform scale of values applicable to the different systems. The results generated by the system will be assessed, and the goal of the assessment is to cover different abilities of the system (including descriptive, design, systematic, and analytical abilities).