AI Expert Witness Excluded By Judge Because His Report Contained Faked Citations
In a twist that perfectly encapsulates the risks of artificial intelligence in the courtroom, on Jan. 10th, a Stanford professor hired as an expert witness in a lawsuit about AI-generated deepfakes had his testimony thrown out after it was revealed…
In a twist that perfectly encapsulates the risks of artificial intelligence in the courtroom, on Jan. 10th, a Stanford professor hired as an expert witness in a lawsuit about AI-generated deepfakes had his testimony thrown out after it was revealed that AI itself had hallucinated citations in his court filing. The case, which challenges Minnesota’s ban on AI-generated election deepfakes, has now become a cautionary tale about the risks of overreliance on AI-generated information in legal proceedings.
