{"id":6215,"date":"2025-10-25T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/law-school-trial-ai-jury\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:30:00","slug":"law-school-trial-ai-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/law-school-trial-ai-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"Law School Tests Trial With Jury Made Up of ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The University of North Carolina School of Law held an unusual mock trial on Friday.<\/p>\n

Looming over the proceedings even more prominently than the judge running the show were three tall digital displays, sticking out with their glossy finishes amid the courtroom\u2019s sea of wood paneling. Each screen represented a different AI chatbot: OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT, xAI\u2019s Grok, and Anthropic\u2019s Claude.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These AIs\u2019 role? As the \u201cjurors\u201d who would determine the fate of a man charged with juvenile robbery.<\/p>\n

The case, thankfully, was fictional. But all three of the AI chatbots serving on the \u201cjury\u201d have been used by professional lawyers in real court cases<\/a> \u2014 often resulting in embarrassing blunders \u2014 meaning that to some extent the technology is already affecting legal outcomes across the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Organizers said that the stunt, called \u201cThe Trial of Henry Justus,\u201d is meant to raise questions about AI\u2019s role in the justice system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis exercise highlights critical issues of accuracy, efficiency, bias, and legitimacy raised by such use,\u201d Joseph Kennedy, a UNC professor of law who designed the mock trial and served as judge, said in a statement<\/a> before the event was held.<\/p>\n

AI\u2019s inroads into legal settings continues to be a contested subject as many lawyers leveraging AI tools are blasted for committing egregious errors with the tech<\/a>. Typically, an AI goes wrong by citing either misquoted or fabricated caselaw, a symptom of the tech\u2019s fundamental problem of \u201challucinating\u201d misinformation that it presents as fact, which the industry is still nowhere close to solving. Judges have handed out harsh punishments, including fines and sanctions, to attorneys who have turned in shoddy AI-sabotaged work.<\/p>\n

Such embarrassing debacles notwithstanding, the fact remains that AI tools are already gaining popularity in legal fields, and with considerable enthusiasm. Nearly three quarters of legal professionals in a Reuters <\/em>survey<\/a> this year said that they believe AI is a force for good in their profession. Over half of them said their organizations were already seeing a return on investment from going in on AI.<\/p>\n

At the AI mock trial, the AI \u201cjurors\u201d were given a real-time transcript of the proceedings and then \u201cdeliberated\u201d in front of the audience, according to Eric Muller, a UNC professor of law in jurisprudence and ethics who watched the trial.<\/p>\n

It did not make a great impression.<\/p>\n

\u201cIntense criticism came from members of a post-trial panel including a law professor and a philosopher with legal training,\u201d Muller wrote<\/a> in a Bluesky post. \u201cI suspect most in the audience came away believing that trial-by-bot is not a good idea,\u201d he added in a followup thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Attendees pointed out how the bots couldn\u2019t see a witness\u2019s body language, or draw from human experience. We might also add AI\u2019s well documented tendency to drastically misinterpret information because of simple typos<\/a> and to exhibit racial bias, sometimes pretty egregiously. Grok, Elon Musk\u2019s chatbot which served as one of the \u201cjurors,\u201d literally styled itself \u201cMechaHitler<\/a>\u201d during a legendary meltdown that saw it spew racist rants and praise Nazis.<\/p>\n

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Do you know anything about the role that AI is playing in the legal system? Send us a tip at tips@futurism.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Clearly, there\u2019s room for improvement. But according to Muller, we should be extremely wary of the AI industry\u2019s \u201cinstinct to repair.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe bots were bad, but they are getting better. Every release is a beta for a better build,\u201d Muller wrote. \u201cBots can\u2019t read body language? We\u2019ll give them a video feed. Bots can\u2019t infuse their judgment with the wisdom of experience? We\u2019ll give them backstories.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology will recursively repair its way into every human space if we let it,\u201d Muller warned. \u201cIncluding the jury box.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on AI:<\/strong> Woman Wins Court Case by Using ChatGPT as a Lawyer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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