Beneath the Law

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Can AI Destroy a Legal Career? Canada's First Case Has an Answer

Can AI Destroy a Legal Career? Canada's First Case Has an Answer15 Sept24 min

Send us Fan Mail What happens when a lawyer's greatest mistake is not submitting fabricated cases to a court…but lying about it afterward? This episode confronts Canada's first Law Society of Ontario disciplinary decision arising from the misuse of artificial intelligence: a landmark case in which a thirty-year practitioner used ChatGPT to produce a factum, submitted citations for cases that did not exist, and then constructed a series of falsehoods when caught. Gavin Tighe and St...