UK Judges Allowed to Use AI Chatbots As Part of Their Job
Judges and lawyers in the UK have now been offered guidance to use AI chatbots in legal proceedings, Digit News of Scotland reported yesterday
Judges will be allowed to use ChatGPT to help write rulings despite warnings that AI can invent cases that never happened – a lower risk when lawyers are crazy enough to have AI write memorandums and authority from scratch, as opposed where cases are cited and decisions are written from the record.
The Judicial Office in the UK has issued official guidance to thousands of judges in England and Wales saying AI can be useful for summarising large amounts of text or in administrative tasks.
Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls, said that AI “offers significant opportunities in developing a better, quicker, and more cost-effective digital justice system.”
He said: “Technology will only move forwards and the judiciary has to understand what is going on. Judges, like everybody else, need to be acutely aware that AI can give inaccurate responses as well as accurate ones.”
Business Insider added, this morning,
For ways that AI tools can be helpful with tasks, the guidance states that it can help summarize large amounts of text and write presentations, emails, and a court’s decision on a case. However, it did seem to warn against using it for legal research and analysis.
Stayed or the courts using AI in the States – though I am sensing a rising tide here of lawyers and legal organizations opposing the use of AI.