In a recent Missouri Lawyers Media article, Thompson Cobourn partner Jennifer Price examined the legal profession’s response to AI-generated errors in court filings and judicial opinions. The article explored a high-profile Mississippi case in which a court order reportedly contained multiple AI-generated inaccuracies, raising broader concerns about the use of generative AI in the legal system.
Jennifer emphasized that lawyers and law firms must understand both the capabilities and limitations of AI tools before incorporating them into their work. She noted that ethical AI implementation begins with recognizing risks such as hallucinations, bias, confidentiality concerns, and uncertainty around the origins of AI-generated information.
“The most important thing in implementing this in an ethical way, or one of the most important things, is to actually know the risks,” said Jennifer. “We’ve known these things—bias, hallucinations, things like that have been out there—confidentiality has been a big issue too and really just generally, where is this information coming from?”
She also discussed the potential for inaccurate AI-generated legal materials to become embedded in publicly available sources, creating additional challenges for attorneys who rely on those materials during research.
“What I think is happening is they’ve created things that look like actual cases. And now, they’re in the records somehow and they’re getting out there,” Jennifer said.
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