How comfortable would you be with a lawyer using artificial intelligence to represent you?
Just this year, lawyers and law firms have been sanctioned and fined for submitting legal briefs with fake, AI-generated citations, the Arizona Supreme Court has enlisted artificial court reporters to summarize important cases and a dead man “gave a statement” in his own manslaughter trial through an AI video made by his family.
In an attempt to ensure Georgia courts can transition into the age of AI as smoothly as possible, a special committee established in August by now-retired Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs dug into the issue. That panel issued a report this month reviewing the use of AI in Georgia courts and producing a list of eight recommendations intended to maintain public faith in the judicial system as use of the technology expands. The report proposes that the recommendations be rolled out over the next three years.
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