How AI is introducing errors into courtrooms
James O'Donnell
created: May 20, 2025, 9 a.m. | updated: May 21, 2025, 12:40 p.m.
One of Anthropic’s lawyers had asked the company’s AI model Claude to create a citation for a legal article, but Claude included the wrong title and author.
But they cited laws that don’t exist, prompting the defendant’s attorney to accuse them of including AI hallucinations in their request.
The prosecutors, according to Israeli news outlets, admitted that this was the case, receiving a scolding from the judge.
These are big-time lawyers making significant, embarrassing mistakes with AI.
These are lawyers tight on time or without a cadre of other lawyers to help with a brief.
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