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The outlook for AI in the courtroom didn’t look too promising last year when multiple state prosecutors threatened a startup CEO with jail time if he went through with plans to equip a defendant with an “AI lawyer” that would give real-time legal guidance via an earpiece during proceedings. When two New York lawyers were sanctioned for submitting a legal brief that included fictitious case citations generated by ChatGPT, it looked even more bleak. Yet courts, judges, and law firms worldwide have begun adopting generative AI without any real standards or guidelines.
