Chief Justice Roberts Focuses on AI in Year-End Report
Summary
On December 31, 2023, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts released his 2023 YearEnd Report on the Federal Judiciary—his 19th annual report. In his report, Chief Justice Roberts discusses the role of AI in the legal industry, as posing both risk and reward. The report includes a short history of how the legal profession slowly adopted new technology like the typewriter and telephones. Ultimately, Chief Justice Roberts predicts that AI will “significantly affect[]” judicial work but that “human judges will be around for a while.”
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