Chief Justice: AI Will Transform the Courts -- and Not in a Good Way

The chief justice noted that AI could provide equity in extending legal resources to low-income people and “have the welcome potential to smooth out any mismatch between available resources and urgent needs in our court system.”

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Roberts also cautioned, however, about the dangers of using AI without verification presented to lawyers, specifically “hallucination,” a trend in which lawyers use AI tools to “submit briefs with citations to non-existent cases. (Always a bad idea.)”

The report concludes by predicting “human judges will be around for a while” but that “judicial work — particularly at the trial level — will be significantly affected by AI.”

[I for one welcome our new Robot Judge Overlords! Er … nope. Thus far, AI has been a disaster in courts, most spectacularly for Michael Cohen, whose briefs were filled with non-existent cases and who now claims that he’s a legal novice after having been disbarred. At least in current terms, the use of AI could make matters even worse for indigent clients than overworked public defenders. — Ed]

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