Oct. 6, 2025
I.A. invidious alternative
A.I. sparks both alarm and utility -- from Geoffrey Hinton's warnings to courtroom missteps -- raising questions about clarity, judgment and how future lawyers will use it.





2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice
2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.

Yes, I'm back at it. Are the "elderly" by nature Luddites? In some of my previous columns, I sounded my alarms about the dangers of A.I. I am in good company. The so-called "father" of A.I., Geoffrey Hinton, left Google so he could publicly register his concern, or better to say "fear," about where A.I. is headed. On 60 Minutes, and in an extensive interview conducted by Will Douglas in MIT Technology Review (May 2023), Hinton expressed concerns about the entities that...
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