When Expert AI Prompts Become Evidence

Your expert uses generative AI to cut millions of documents down to something a human can actually read. Then the other side asks the question everyone has been dancing around: are the AI prompts and outputs discoverable? I walk through Conservation Law Foundation v Shell Oil Company (D. Conn.), where a magistrate judge answers “yes” and frames prompts as expert methodology under Rule 26, not some brand-new category of evidence. The twist: the ruling comes as a text-only minute order on the d...