Hallucinations Create Complications When AI Goes to Court

When An AI Agent Tries To Kill You, Who Goes To Jail?

You're a streetcar operator. If you need more specifics, let's say it's fin de siècle Vienna and you've got a jaunty cap. Oh no! Your streetcar is barreling down on a group of people. But you observe that they lie just beyond a junction in the track whose switch you control. If you pull the lever, your streetcar will move to the other track—and safety!

Hallucinations Create Complications When AI Goes to Court

Judges are losing their patience as AI mistakes pile up in US courts.  The number of cases in which the tech has generated incorrect information or cited nonexistent cases to support lawyers’ arguments is both alarming and increasing. In early June, the Utah Court of Appeals found that two lawyers had breached procedural rules by submitting a legal document citing multiple cases that did not existt.  That wasn’t an isolated incident. The Washing…