A man appearing before a New York court got a scolding from a judge after he tried to use an avatar generated by artificial intelligence to argue his case.
Agreed, if AI can pass the bar AND the defendant’s right to a public attorney is unavailable due to resource and time constraints, then this is a whole lot better than the plea deals that some defenders are being coerced to sign without a public defender.
And let’s not kid ourselves. Most of the existing public defenders are probably using AI to support their case nowadays anyway.
again though missing the point, to my knowledge at least in the article, I don’t see anything to imply the arguements were AI. At least it sounds like the person is claiming the AI was only used for the face and voice.
So on the whole, it just sounds like he wrote the script himself. The AI doesn’t need to pass the bar in this example. because the AI is just a glorified costume. You don’t have to pass the bar to represent yourself, and at least with the information presented in this arguement, the AI did not create any of the arguements, only read a script written by the person.
Or they could pay public defenders a fair wage and hire more. The reason they don’t is because they don’t want people to have a fair trial. You’re constitutionally ineffective the second you get hired as a PD. We have the resources but many on the far right want to dismantle the requirement for representation and overturn Gideon.
AI isn’t the solution to this—proper governance is.
Agreed, if AI can pass the bar AND the defendant’s right to a public attorney is unavailable due to resource and time constraints, then this is a whole lot better than the plea deals that some defenders are being coerced to sign without a public defender.
And let’s not kid ourselves. Most of the existing public defenders are probably using AI to support their case nowadays anyway.
again though missing the point, to my knowledge at least in the article, I don’t see anything to imply the arguements were AI. At least it sounds like the person is claiming the AI was only used for the face and voice.
So on the whole, it just sounds like he wrote the script himself. The AI doesn’t need to pass the bar in this example. because the AI is just a glorified costume. You don’t have to pass the bar to represent yourself, and at least with the information presented in this arguement, the AI did not create any of the arguements, only read a script written by the person.
Or they could pay public defenders a fair wage and hire more. The reason they don’t is because they don’t want people to have a fair trial. You’re constitutionally ineffective the second you get hired as a PD. We have the resources but many on the far right want to dismantle the requirement for representation and overturn Gideon.
AI isn’t the solution to this—proper governance is.