Apr. 13, 2026
The horror isn't AI, it's what we're doing without it
While AI drafting legal prose has raised alarm for some, it serves as a tool to assist judges rather than replace them. The true concern lies in overworked courts and eroding public confidence.
Bridget Mary McCormack
Former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court and the former President and CEO of the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution.
Justice Arthur Gilbert recently asked ChatGPT to write two paragraphs in his style. He read them and found the result "not bad." But he spent the rest of his Daily Journal column expressing his deep dismay about it. "The horror! The horror!" he wrote, borrowing from Conrad.
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