Texas NAACP President Apologizes, Avoids Sanctions for AI Errors

A prominent Texas civil rights lawyer avoided sanctions for misusing artificial intelligence in a mistake-riddled brief after a federal judge accepted his apology and closed the matter.

Gary Bledsoe, a 50-year lawyer who has led the Texas NAACP since 1991, presented “exactly the right response,” on the steps he and his firm are taking to avoid AI-induced errors in the future, Judge Robert Pitman of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas said in court Tuesday.

Those actions included Bledsoe teaming with an ethics expert, who provided an AI policy for employees at his firm to sign. ...