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Or a student asked to solve a legal problem will report that \u201cI found the solution, in a chat with AI,\u201d when \u201cwhat really happened is that AI found the solution in existing (cases) and presented it to the student as a new idea,\u201d said Chris Hoofnagle, a Berkeley law professor. \u201cThat\u2019s actually plagiarism.\u201d<\/p>\n
AI use has been rapidly expanding in the legal profession, where a worldwide survey recently found that 80% of large law firms said they were using or exploring use of the technology. And its misuse has also been widespread\u00a0\u2014 another report found nearly 1,400 cases, including 957 in the United States, in which courts have found that artificial intelligence was used to cite \u201challucinated\u201d cases\u00a0\u2014 cases that were misrepresented, or nonexistent\u00a0\u2014 in legal filings. Legal commentators said the actual number is almost certainly much higher.<\/p>\n
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Hoofnagle, who teaches first-year law students at UC Berkeley, said he proposed the new rules to other faculty members after seeing increasing numbers of assigned classwork with questionable legal reasoning.<\/p>\n
The typical problem in law school, he said, has not been hallucinated cases, but defective legal analysis of actual cases. One apparent reason, he said, is that the policy in effect since 2024 has allowed students to consult AI technology for \u201cbrainstorming,\u201d or coming up with ideas for class assignments and future exams.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you don\u2019t have your own analytical judgment, AI will do it for you, and then it\u2019s no longer your judgment,\u201d Hoofnagle told the Chronicle. \u201cIt\u2019s OpenAI or Anthropic,\u201d two of the leading artificial intelligence companies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said Stanford Law School and several institutions elsewhere have similar policies.<\/p>\n
The banned practices at UC Berkeley will include asking AI to propose a topic for a class assignment; asking for a summary of a legal rule for use in an assignment; seeking help in identifying repetitive passages in a student\u2019s work or correcting grammar, and requesting an outline the student might use in a future exam.<\/p>\n
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AI will still be allowed for tutoring students, and for study guides, but not for class assignments, Hoofnagle said.<\/p>\n
Another Berkeley law professor, Jonathan Glater, said the policy seems flexible enough to let him show students how to use AI, effectively as well as ethically, while preventing improper reliance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are ways to use the technology that can up a lawyer\u2019s game, and if I am teaching a more advanced class that aims to prepare them to use this tool in practice, it would be weird to prohibit its use,\u201d Glater said by email.<\/p>\n
But he said the strict ban \u201cmakes a lot of sense \u2026 in an introductory class that is helping students learn basic and essential concepts\u201d for studying and learning law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley Law School announced a new policy Thursday prohibiting students from using artificial intelligence in preparing class…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[15,143,145,144,995,2012],"class_list":["post-327700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-education","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-tech","tag-university-of-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}