The best defense against AI slop in the courtroom may be AI.We hear a lot about AI-generated filings overwhelming judges. That’s a legitimate concern. We hear much less about countermeasures.Used properly, AI can make judicial opinions more accurate and produce
If you ever need an ego boost, describe a half-formed idea to an AI chatbot. Within seconds, you will learn your idea is insightful and your question is great. Apparently, every question is great.
A chatbot may call your argument
Isaac Asimov was way ahead of his time. I, Robot, his 75-year-old collection of science fiction stories, remains strikingly relevant to today’s hottest news topic: AI agents that behave unpredictably and sometimes dangerously.
Asimov repeatedly shows how even a
A friend recently asked me to recommend which AI experts they should follow on LinkedIn.
Jennifer Ellis, Carolyn Elefant, Nicole Black, and Thomas G. Martin are can’t-miss choices in the legal AI space.
Venturing beyond the legal
There’s an obvious objection to recommending books about AI: timeliness. Between manuscript and publication, details change, and capability claims are overtaken by whatever shipped last week. All of that is true, but none of it matters much.
What a good
Many will agree with AI skeptics that lawyers should not use AI in criminal cases. My take is different.
Those lawyers are right about one thing: criminal law deserves the strictest checking discipline in the profession. That is not
Lawyers will never eliminate AI hallucinations with today’s technology. But they can reduce them—sometimes substantially.
Hallucinations arise from fundamental characteristics of current large language models, which generate answers by predicting plausible language rather than independently determining whether every statement is
Despite the tech industry’s persistent optimism, a growing body of research concludes that generative AI’s tendency to fabricate facts is a structural reality, not a temporary bug. The authors and analysts below argue that entirely eliminating hallucinations remains mathematically and
LawDroid founder and access to justice advocate Tom Martin has seen a lot of organizational organizational inertia in his day:
People keep doing the same things they’re doing. They keep buying from the same company. They keep wanting to use
Are blogs passé? I’d argue that blogs are still one of the most effective — and underrated — marketing platforms for lawyers.
Social media is ephemeral. An Instagram post today will be old news tomorrow. A blog offers permanence. It
