Erin Mulvaney

Law clerks are probably using basic tools as well.

They do a lot of work for judges.

It's really anecdotal at this point.

Often the news comes out when something really negative happens.

I assume it's happening more than we realize, but I do think it's a pretty small group of crusaders who are really big proponents.

Right now, judges just are trying to really make sure that if any of these tools are being used, that there's still a human involved in the most important decisions and going over things carefully.

Even the judge I quoted, who's a big proponent of it, said he would never trust anything wholesale with these tools.

But judges have these really important roles adjudicating over things that

really matter to people's lives, you know, matter to the world.

And so I think they are probably going to be slower to jump ahead than other industries.

Just because of that role, I talked to one judge who said that there was a lot of drama about using fax machines in courts because it was possible that that document, people are going to see it.

Like, that's how slow this area is.

I actually was, too, because when I was speaking to these judges, I think their willingness to talk to me was because kind of the main story out there, hallucinations and mistakes showing up in these courts is the story that we've been hearing up to this point.

And I imagine just as technology gets better, we'll be seeing the other side of the story more and more.

And the argument these judges would say is the more knowledge you have about how to use them responsibly—

That'll be the answer to the future, rather than ignoring technology.