AI vs. Human Education Level

Across ten legal tasks, HAQQ's benchmark rates AI output at 14.8-15.7 years of education-equivalent, with human performance close behind at 12.5-15.3 years. Most gaps are narrow: on examining records for compliance, AI and humans tie at 15.3 years. The outlier is explaining tax laws, where AI rates 14.9 years against a 12.5-year human baseline, a 2.4-year gap wider than any other task. For legal teams, this suggests AI matches human-level output on core research and drafting, with the largest edge in specialized regulatory explanation rather than general legal reasoning.