In legal world, artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword

NEW ­PRACTICE: Attorneys John R. Feeney, left, and Maxwell Holland are the founding partners of Contract House LLC, a generative artificial intelligence-driven, attorney-backed law firm in Newport.
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN
NEW ­PRACTICE: Attorneys John R. Feeney, left, and Maxwell Holland are the founding partners of Contract House LLC, a generative artificial intelligence-driven, attorney-backed law firm in Newport.
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

Andrew Dietderich, partner at nationally renowned law firm Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City, found himself in damage-control mode last spring, thanks to artificial intelligence. In April, he sent a letter to a federal judge, effusively apologizing for a motion his firm had filed that contained inaccurate citations and errors generated by AI “hallucinations.”

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