US Lawyers In Trouble Over Artificial Intelligence. “It was making up nonexistent cases.”

The use of artificial intelligence in professional environments is now inevitable, so the human role of controlling the information provided or compiled by the AI system relied upon becomes of paramount importance. This tool is not miraculous, it's not a magic spell that ensures correct and quality results every time - it is a technology that is still under development and tends to give unreliable answers or, even, to “hallucinate” completely false information.

In the case of today's referenced article, a court in Wyoming had to request an official explanation from a group of lawyers involved in some cases because they had presented the court with a series of false legal precedents. The AI they were relying on to speed up the research and drafting process had made up cases that might agree with what they were working on, thus offering seemingly accurate results - despite the fact that they were false.

The people involved admitted their mistake and said that what happened was reason for a careful discussion about the control and use of artificial intelligence within their work environment.