Partner Who Wrote About AI Ethics, Fired For Citing Fake AI Cases - Above the Law

Partner Who Wrote About AI Ethics, Fired For Citing Fake AI Cases - Above the Law

Most of the time, when a lawyer unwittingly cites a bunch of fake cases spit out by artificial intelligence, it’s because they never bothered to figure out how the product worked or even superficially consider the ethical implications. They plead with the judge that they’re just a humble scribe of Ashurbanipal who couldn’t possibly grasp the powerful forces involved in asking a mansplaining-as-a-service bot to magic up some cases. As an excuse i…