Faced with a surge in cases brought by self-represented litigants, the leaders of some of Australia’s top courts are calling for a closer embrace of artificial intelligence, even as their colleagues at the Fair Work Commission blame the new technology for driving a flood of bogus claims.
In a speech, Chief Justice of the Federal Court Debra Mortimer acknowledged the spike in claims by people without legal representation and accepted that their use of AI for “legal advice and assistance” had caused “expanding workload issues and errors” for judges and staff.
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