The University of North Carolina School of Law held an unusual mock trial on Friday.

Looming over the proceedings even more prominently than the judge running the show were three tall digital displays, sticking out with their glossy finishes amid the courtroom’s sea of wood paneling. Each screen represented a different AI chatbot: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, xAI’s Grok, and Anthropic’s Claude.

These AIs’ role? As the “jurors” who would determine the fate of a man charged with juvenile robbery.

The case, thankfully, was fictional. But all three of the AI chatbots serving on the “jury” have been used by professional lawyers in real court cases — often resulting in embarrassing blunders — meaning that to some extent the technology is already affecting legal outcomes across the country.

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