Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
I remember not so long ago that clients would say to me ‘Please tell me you’re not using AI.’ And now they’re saying to me ‘Please tell me you are using AI.’
— Stacy Ackermann, global managing partner of K&L Gates, in comments given during an appearance on Bloomberg Law’s On The Merits podcast, concerning clients encouraging her firm’s use of artificial intelligence, even after attorneys were slapped with a $31,000 sanction for using hallucinated citations in court filings.
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