A prominent civil rights attorney in Texas must explain why he shouldn’t be sanctioned for improper use of artificial intelligence after a federal court found he cited a non-existent case and mischaracterized the findings of others.
Gary Bledsoe, president of Texas NAACP since 1991, is to appear for a show cause hearing Feb. 17 in the Western District of Texas, Judge Robert Pitman wrote in an order Wednesday.
His troubles come as courts everywhere grapple with the rise of AI tools and the pitfalls of attorneys placing trust in them without reviewing the accuracy of what they spit out.
Bledsoe, ...