It feels, pleasingly, like a scene from a cerebral James Bond film, or perhaps an episode of Slow Horses. I am in a shadowy corner of a plush, buzzy Soho members’ bar. A mild December twilight is falling over London. Across the table from me sits an old acquaintance, a senior English barrister, greying, quietly handsome,…

New guidance for the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence replaces the existing Australian Government voluntary standard and calls into question the status of proposed mandatory guardrails. The Guidance for AI Adoption At the end of October, the Department of Industry, Science and Resources and the National AI Centre published new Guidance for AI Adoption…

UK Law Society Gazette The rush to equip young lawyers with skills in AI and automation has taken another leap forward, with an international firm including this training as a core part of the working week. First-year associates at Boston-based Ropes & Gray are being encouraged to dedicate around 20% of their billable time to training in…

Solicitors should check the veracity of AI-generated content, avoid falling for ‘clickbait’ and be aware of deepfakes, according to updated social media guidance issued by the Law Society. Society president Mark Evans said social media remains a significant tool for law firms to promote their services but reminded solicitors of the risks associated with social…

Oct 10 (Reuters) – The New York state court system on Friday set out a new policy on the use of artificial intelligence by judges and other court staff, joining at least four other U.S. states that have adopted similar rules in the past year. The interim policy, opens new tab, which applies to all judges,…

J Michael Dockery just published this to linked in   Another week, another lawyer in trouble for AI hallucinations – the judge here calls out that “nearly half the pages” in this attorney’s brief contained hallucinated citations. The court provides an interesting sampling of the errors that were found, starting on page 10. Some of…

Damien Charlotin writes This database tracks legal decisions1 in cases where generative AI produced hallucinated content – typically fake citations, but also other types of arguments. It does not track the (necessarily wider) universe of all fake citations or use of AI in court filings. While seeking to be exhaustive (394 cases identified so far), it is a…