Judges in England, Wales approved for limited, cautious AI use: 'Can't hold back the floodgates'
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Some high-profile cases in the last year have seen lawyers try to use artificial intelligence to write filings or case summaries and include made-up cases, known as "hallucinations."
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"That might inform your decision, but I don't think it is at a place now – and I don't know if it ever will be – that it can actually do the sorting … and make the sort of decisions and determinations that you need to make, whether it's as a judge or a lawyer," Jacobson said.
The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, the body of various judges, magistrates, tribunal members and coroners in England and Wales, decided that judges may use AI to write opinions, and only opinions, with no leeway to use the technology for research or legal analyses due to the potential for AI to fabricate information and provide misleading, inaccurate and biased information.