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Courts and law societies across Canada have issued directives on the use of AI by lawyers and court staff. But the rules and guidelines are inconsistent and some doubt whether they are being universally followed.

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence has created a challenging gap between technological innovation and regulation,

First empirical evidence shows new AI tools improve attorney efficiency up to 140% and actual quality of legal work up to 28%.

Different academic and industry norms within AI ethics underscore the potential benefit of shared preprinting guidelines and ethical safeguards, which could help foster mutual understanding and trust and contribute to better AI solutions and policies.

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Morgan & Morgan—which bills itself as "America's largest injury law firm" that fights "for the people"—learned the hard way this month that even one lawyer blindly citing AI-hallucinated case law can risk sullying the reputation of an entire nationwide firm.

Hancock, the editor of a journal about "misinformation," played his own role in spreading fake news, when he submitted testimony that included "hallucinated citations," meaning they were not real. In his initial filing, he declared himself an "expert" on "technology."

Are we putting our faith in technology that we don't fully understand? A new study comes at a time when AI systems are making decisions impacting our daily lives -- from banking and healthcare to crime detection.