Australian judges are becoming "human filters" as artificial intelligence is increasingly used in legal proceedings, with the High Court's chief justice warning the prevalence of machine-generated arguments is unsustainable.

In an address to the Australian Legal Convention in Canberra on Friday, Stephen Gageler said there were increasing examples of AI being used inappropriately by litigants and legal practitioners.

"We have entered an unsustainable phase in the prevalence of the use of AI in litigation in which members of the Australian Judicature (courts and judges) are acting as human filters and human adjudicators of competing machine-generated or machine-enhanced arguments," he said.

Noting the need to proceed with caution in applying AI to the law, Justice Gageler said the efficie

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