Law class test: all 17 AI-drafted appellate opinions affirmed, but the real court reversed
sebkrier · x · 2026-10-28
A student in a course on AI in Appellate Practice (taught by an active judge) shared a class experiment: AI agents were given an appellate case record and asked to write the opinion and decide the case. The court's actual ruling was unpublished, so the agents couldn't find it.
All 17 AI-generated opinions affirmed the trial court's decision — but the real appellate court reversed. The author says it's his first lens into how AI intersects the judiciary and will share more observations as the quarter progresses.
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