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 them faster.
If I’d had AI back when I was a judicial law
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 sound because it assumes you want agreement and glosses over weaknesses it should flag.
Routine
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 system equipped with seemingly sensible safety rules can behave dangerously when the rules are ambiguous
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 domain, Wharton’s Ethan Mollick, author of the best-selling Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI
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 book does better than a vendor demo or a LinkedIn post is provide a framework
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 a prescription for AI abstinence.
The real problem is lawyers filing something without reading it.
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 true. Recent OpenAI research adds another wrinkle: AI systems can be rewarded for guessing rather
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 their tools in the same way.
Inertia is powerful indeed. I’ve found one small way
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 will always be there and always under your control. They make an ideal hub for