Law clerk vs. AI? Courthouse test highlights judicial curiosity

July 3, 2024, 11:16 AM UTC

Law Clerk vs. AI? Courthouse Test Highlights Judicial Curiosity

Judge Xavier Rodriguez’s law clerks and interns spent weeks recently poring over evidence from a high-profile trial on challenges to Texas’ voting and election laws, and then summarized key testimony for the court’s official findings of fact and conclusions of law. Now, an AI tool will do the same thing.

While only the human-powered work will become part of the court record, the federal judge plans to publish results on how well the AI tool compared, he told Bloomberg Law.

Rodriguez is among several federal and state judges experimenting with how ...

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