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Claude wins high praise from a Supreme Court justice - is AI's legal losing streak over?


Some legal experts are embracing AI, despite the technology's ongoing hallucination problem. Here's why that matters.

Speaking at the Ninth Circuit's judicial conference in Monterey, California last month, Kagan referred to recent blog posts from Supreme Court litigator Adam Unikowsky, which describe his experiments using Claude for complex legal analysis. In a 2023 end-of-year report to the Federal Judiciary, US Chief Justice John Roberts highlighted the possibility that AI legal advisors could one day provide useful service to those who aren't able to afford a (human) lawyer. These issues aren't restricted to the legal field, either; new AI models and agents are still routinely falling short of expectations and, at times, causing serious damage when deployed in workflows.

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