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As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot write your will.
This still needs a person who signs their name to it.
Can you do it?
5 minutesto a draft.
n/ait cannot be self-verified.
Cost, all in£0
Skill neededchat-fluent
Who has to check ita professional
What the alternative costsA solicitor is the relevant human alternative for checking your circumstances, drafting the will and explaining execution requirements.
If this goes wrong, your estate may be distributed contrary to your wishes or the document may fail when it is needed.
What to actually do
Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.
Use a tool built for this
Second choiceDo it yourself
The distant thirdA chat interface gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.
How to actually do it
- Open GOV.UK guidance on making a will and note the relevant UK jurisdiction, then do not treat the chatbot's draft as a substitute for that guidance or legal advice.
- Gather the full legal names and contact details of the people you may name, plus information about children, dependants, previous relationships, executors, guardians and substitute executors.
- Make a private list of property, accounts, investments, business interests, debts, jointly owned assets, overseas assets, trusts, charities and any specific gifts, without guessing missing details.
- Paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and answer every question using only facts you can confirm; tell it to mark anything uncertain rather than filling the gap.
- Read the resulting summary and compare every name, relationship, asset and gift against your own records, correcting the draft where it is factually wrong.
- Send the summary, questions and discussion draft to a solicitor and ask them to confirm the appropriate form, legal issues and signing and witnessing requirements for your jurisdiction.
- Follow the solicitor's instructions to sign, witness, store and update the final will, rather than signing the chatbot's draft on your own.
Prompt
I am preparing information for a solicitor about a will in [jurisdiction within the UK]. Do not present this as a legally valid will and do not give professional advice. Ask me clear questions before drafting anything, including about my spouse or civil partner, children, dependants, previous marriages or civil partnerships, jointly owned property, business interests, overseas assets, trusts, debts, charities, specific gifts, beneficiaries who may die before me, guardians for children, executors, substitute executors and funeral wishes. Do not invent names, relationships, assets, values or legal conclusions. After I answer, produce: 1. a plain-language summary of my instructions, 2. a list of missing or ambiguous information, 3. questions a solicitor should resolve, and 4. a clearly labelled discussion draft using square brackets for every unresolved detail. Explain that signing and witnessing requirements depend on the jurisdiction and must be confirmed with a solicitor. Keep the wording precise and avoid tax, inheritance, capacity or family-law conclusions.
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
What it gets wrong
- AI cannot identify every legal issue created by your family structure, property ownership, dependants or overseas assets.
- AI cannot confirm that the document is valid for your UK jurisdiction or that its signing and witnessing were carried out correctly.
- AI cannot assess testamentary capacity, undue influence or whether someone may challenge the will.
- AI cannot take responsibility for the distribution of your estate if the wording is wrong or incomplete.
What makes this a NO: legal accountability, verification cost and stakes of error.
How we scored this
Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 2 |
| Inputs | 1 |
| Verification | 0 |
| Liability | 0 |
| Effort delta | 1 |
| Total | 4 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can ChatGPT write my will?
- It can produce a discussion draft from your instructions, but that does not make it a valid or suitable will. This is not professional advice, so a solicitor should check the circumstances, wording and signing requirements.
- Is it legal to use AI to make a will?
- Using AI to organise your wishes or prepare questions for a solicitor is not the same as making a legally effective will. A solicitor should confirm the applicable rules for your jurisdiction and the final document.
- Can I print an AI-written will and sign it?
- You should not assume that printing and signing an AI draft makes it effective. The required formalities depend on the relevant UK jurisdiction, and a solicitor should confirm how the final will must be executed.
- What information do I need to write a will?
- You generally need accurate information about your family, dependants, assets, debts, beneficiaries, executors, guardians and specific gifts. Use AI to organise that information and identify questions, then ask a solicitor to decide what belongs in the final will.
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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.
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