financial statements misrepresented the value of his assets. they also went after trump s former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. michael cohen has played an important role in the origin story of this case because in 2019 he testified before congress that trump had lied to banks and insurance companies, trying to get more favorable terms for loans, insurance and also taxes. that is part of what inspired this investigation that went on for years and resulted in this civil case. they also attacked cohen personally reminding people he s a convicted liar and brought up an incident recently where he used a.i., artificial intelligence, to drum up case citations and handed to his friend david schwartz. they really went after michael cohen. they re summarizing their argument, insisting there was no harm. the bank profited from this. all a summary of the case they
a.i., artificial intelligence, to drum up case citations. he works with a long-time friend, an attorney. he handed over these citations to that attorney who didn t check them. they were submitted to the court. that was highly embarrassing. seems irrelevant to the case at hand. kise is going there because michael cohen is the origin of the investigation. that was a plan months ago. they believe that if they made this case about michael cohen they could say, michael cohen has been charged with lying to the court. he s a known liar. he s been convicted. you can t base a case around michael cohen. he s not the key witness here. the case has other witnesses, other evidence. it s a strategy they ve been looking to deploy. there s an interesting thing that happened here. michael cohen as you noted had to admit he used a.i. incorrectly as part of a legal
he would not want artificial intelligence to encroach on that or to manipulate the courts. one thing that john roberts is all about is the integrity of the federal judiciary, especially the supreme court itself. and artificial intelligence, as we have seen, can be manipulated, can mislead and he wanted to warn that it could happen right there in the nation s courts. joan, what i hear you saying is that this is something that lawyers are using for everyday paperwork, right? michael cohen filed a paperwork and unwittingly sent a nonexistent case citations because they had been generated by a chat bot tool google bard. it sounds like there are enough of them that the supreme court chief is worried. you don t. and what that was all about let me tell you why citations are important, audi and phil. the law is based on precedent. when you make an argument to any court, you have to cite past cases. you want those cases to support
Chief Justice John Roberts warned that courts will need to consider the proper use of artificial intelligence (AI), portraying it as a new frontier for change in an annual report that follows a turbulent year for the Supreme Court. “I predict that human judges will be around for a while,” Roberts wrote in his report.…
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s onetime personal lawyer and fixer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online before they were submitted to a judge. Cohen made the admission in a court filing unsealed Friday in Manhattan federal court after a judge earlier this month asked a lawyer to explain how court rulings that do not exist were cited in a motion submitted on Cohen's behalf. Judge Jesse Furman had also asked what role, if any, Cohen played in drafting the motion.