Technology,
Law Practice
Jun. 4, 2025
Can generative AI meet the reasonable person standard in court?
Two recent appellate decisions reveal how judges are using generative AI to resolve disputes, raising critical questions about whether such AI-generated output is even admissible under the rules of evidence.
2nd Appellate District, Division 5
Brian M. Hoffstadt
Presiding Justice
California Court of Appeal
UCLA School of Law, 1995
Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been the "big baddie" in
Hollywood films--from The Terminator to The Matrix to this year's Mission
Impossible finale. Although the sentient AIs depicted in these movies do
not (yet) exist, their younger sibling--generative AIs--already do.
Generative AIs--unlike their apocalypse-inducing big brothers--do not themselves think. Rather, they draw upon the information comprising th...
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