Can AI Write Your Will?
IMPORTANT: This guide is for general educational purposes for U.S. adults with relatively simple finances. It is not legal, tax, or financial advice. HeirLight is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Laws vary by state; consider consulting a licensed attorney about your specific situation.
AI can help with a lot of writing, so it's a fair question: could you just ask a chatbot to write your will? You can generate text that way. Whether you should rely on it for a legal document that only matters when you're not around to fix it is a different question.
Quick answer: You shouldn't have a general AI chatbot like ChatGPT write your actual will. Chatbots can produce confident but wrong or fabricated content ("hallucinations"), they aren't built around your state's signing rules, and they won't guide you through valid execution. A will's validity depends on how it's signed and witnessed, not who or what drafted it, so an incorrectly executed AI will is still invalid. HeirLight takes a different path: our AI helps you understand and decide, but it does not generate your will. Your will is an attorney-reviewed document, personalized to your estate.