A pro se litigant reprimanded by New York judges for deploying a video avatar to make his argument for him has highlighted confusion over rules around AI in court.
“It’s probably never happened before, so there’s not a rule that says you can’t do it,” said Sam Harden, senior innovation manager at Pro Bono Net, a New York-based nonprofit that provides technology to legal aid groups. “AI is moving a lot faster than courts can write rules for.”
The dust-up began when Jerome Dewald played a video during arguments in a Manhattan courtroom March 26 that featured an AI-created ...
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