Partner Who Wrote About AI Ethics, Fired For Citing Fake AI Cases; Above The Law, July 23, 2025

Joe Patrice , Above The Law; Partner Who Wrote About AI Ethics, Fired For Citing Fake AI Cases

"Don’t blame the AI for the fact that you read a brief and never bothered to print out the cases. Who does that? Long before AI, we all understood that you needed to look at the case itself to make sure no one missed the literal red flag on top. It might’ve ended up in there because of AI, but three lawyers and presumably a para or two had this brief and no one built a binder of the cases cited? What if the court wanted oral argument? No one is excusing the decision to ask ChatGPT to resolve your $24 million case, but the blame goes far deeper.

Malaty will shoulder most of the blame as the link in the workflow who should’ve known better. That said, her article about AI ethics, written last year, doesn’t actually address the hallucination problem. While risks of job displacement and algorithms reinforcing implicit bias are important, it is a little odd to write a whole piece on the ethics of legal AI without even breathing on hallucinations."