How AI is clogging the courtroom

Okay. Look. We know you haven't signed up for our brand new indicator newsletter yet. But it's fine. It's fine. It's not a big deal. Vito, it sounds like it is a big deal to you. Yeah. Just just just look at the show notes to sign up. Alright? It comes out every Friday morning. NPR. Like many attorneys, Laura McClain is a bit of a Luddite. I keep paper files. I'm kind of old fashioned even though I yeah. Not that old. Right? And Laura was at this trial earlier this year. She does family law, you know, divorces, custody disputes, heavy stuff. On the opposing side was a woman without an attorney representing herself. So going pro se, as it's called in the biz. Yeah. And it was a divorce case involving finance records and thousands of dollars at issue, and it's going really badly. The woman on the other side is forgetting to object to things. She doesn't have the right number of copies of documents for the court. She's getting flustered, and things are just generally falling apart. By the second day of the trial, she can hardly speak. It was an absolute disaster. She wasn't even able to present evidence just because she had relied so heavily on this outline. At one point, Laura offered to help her find her documents from her outline and give it to the judge just to move the trial along. She'd been rifling through boxes and boxes of loose documents. And then as Laura is helping, she catches a glimpse of the woman's outline, her blueprint for winning the case. It's all AI generated. Even the chatbot prompts were still in there. And in the end, she lost the case. This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Vito Emmanuel. And I'm Darien Woods. AI is transforming the legal system. And today, we're gonna talk about the wider costs of making it much easier to file a case by yourself without a lawyer. On the one hand, people who can't afford lawyers have a legal coach in their corner. On the other hand, it's not a very good coach, and it's clogging up the cords. This message comes from Insperity, providing HR services and technology from payroll, benefits, and HR compliance to talent development. Learn more at insperity.com/hrmatters. This message comes from SAP Concur. Evan Konweiser, chief product and strategy officer at MXGBT, shares why they established a strategic alliance with SAP Concur to create Complete, a unified travel and expense solution powered by AI. Customers have been asking for a long time, can we collaborate better with SAP Concur? And so we got to a point where both companies were in a position to sit down and say, how can we solve our existing joint customer problems in a way that allow us to deliver something truly differentiated? Our travelers want a modern integrated contextual experience to be seamless with the tools that they're using to do other …