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Europe already uses AI. So does Latvia
A presentation: what Eurostat and 2026 studies show about AI use in Latvia and Europe, what lawyers and consumers expect from legal AI, and how LexAI meets those expectations.
I prepared this presentation on where Latvia stands in AI use compared with the rest of Europe and what that means for legal questions. You can page through the slides here, open them full screen or download them as a PDF. An English summary follows below the slides.
Key points
- In 2025, 33.4% of people in Latvia (aged 16–74) used generative AI in the previous three months. The EU average is 32.7%; Estonia is at 46.6% (Eurostat).
- Latvia is ahead of Poland and Germany, but behind Lithuania, Estonia and the Nordic countries. The gap to Estonia is 13 percentage points.
- Among young people (16–24), 73.2% used generative AI. 26.6% of residents use it for private purposes and 14.7% at work.
- In Poland, 81% of legal professionals use AI regularly and 90% check its output, but only 32% trust it (Wolters Kluwer AI Trust Index 2026).
- In England and Wales, 70% of consumers expect AI to make legal services easier to access and 64% expect them to become more affordable. At the same time, 32% of people with a legal problem get no professional help at all (Legal Services Board, 2026).
What I take from this
AI is no longer an experiment — it is an everyday tool for one in three people in Latvia. The only question is which tool to trust with important matters. Lawyers and consumers ask for the same things: clear sources, accuracy, human oversight, knowing when a specialist is needed, and data protection.
These are the principles I built LexAI on: every statement comes with the act, the article and a link to likumi.lv, and if something could not be verified, the opinion says so openly. In complex cases the opinion recommends seeing a lawyer.
Sources
- Eurostat: Individuals – use of generative AI tools (isoc_ai_iaiu), 2025; data updated 5 June 2026.
- Wolters Kluwer Polska: AI Trust Index 2026; survey of ~400 legal professionals in Poland.
- Legal Services Board: AI in legal services – consumer expectations and existing standards (10 June 2026); survey of 1,000 adults in England and Wales.
Note: Eurostat measures the use of generative AI in general, not only for legal questions. There is no single European study yet on how the public uses legal AI tools.