Don’t get used to seeing AI lawyers in the courtroom

When a lawyerless man deployed an AI-generated avatar to argue his civil appeals case in a New York courtroom late last month, a panel of stunned judges quickly shot him down.

It appears to be one of the first attempts at utilizing the rapidly advancing technology in this way during litigation — and it likely won’t be the last.

Tech law experts told Business Insider that though individuals representing themselves in court may try to use AI in a similar way, they…