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New York courts issue AI guide telling lawyers to verify filings, without a disclosure requirement
New York's court system has issued a seven-page guide for attorneys using generative AI to prepare court papers. Lawyers may use AI without disclosing it, but must understand its limits and independently verify citations and other content, because signing a filing certifies its accuracy under existing sanction rules. A New York Law School associate dean called the lack of a disclosure requirement concerning.
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Key points
- The seven-page guide builds on a statewide AI rule adopted earlier this year that puts verification responsibility on lawyers.New York Law Journal
- Attorneys may use generative AI in filings without telling the judge, according to the guidance released Monday.amNewYork
- Lawyers must confirm AI output has no hallucinated cases, laws or citations by finding and reading the underlying authorities.New York Law JournalamNewYork
- Signing a filing certifies it contains no false material, under the same threat of sanction as before.amNewYork
- The guide was developed by the court system's artificial intelligence advisory committee.amNewYork
- New York Law School Associate Dean Heidi Brown called the lack of disclosure concerning and warned of AI misgroundings.amNewYork
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