Lady Carr on AI in Legal Education and Judicial Practice: Preparing Lawyers for the Future

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Chat GPT “…assisted in their organisational structure and added a flourish to his submissions…"

Ultimately, this case highlights the importance of tribunals developing a thorough understanding of AI technologies within the specific legal frameworks they operate under, especially when dealing with vulnerable individuals and equality considerations. Recognising and properly evaluating nuanced differences in AI capabilities will be essential to accurately assessing their true value and ensuring fairness in future decisions.

Landlords already profile tenants, but AI expands profiling capabilities dramatically. AI-driven software can rapidly compile comprehensive profiles, including credit histories, employment records, and even social media content, to discriminate, directly or indirectly, against tenants they deem less desirable.

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“…[An expert’s] resort to AI, Chat-GPT suggests to me that, in the absence of evidence, I ought not infer expertise in radiology in those without qualifications in that discipline.”

“But that does not mean that citing invented judgments is harmless. It causes the Tribunal and HMRC to waste time and public money, and this reduces the resources available to progress the cases of other court users who are waiting for their appeals to be determined. As Judge Kastel said, the practice also "promotes cynicism" about judicial precedents, and this is important, because the use of precedent is "a cornerstone of our legal system" and "an indispensable foundation upon which to decide what is the law and its application to individual cases"