‘Not here to protect lawyers’: How AI could be used for good in court

Senior lawyers, including a former Fair Work vice president, have backed self-represented litigants using artificial intelligence to run their cases after a landmark victory by the technology in the workplace tribunal, saying the justice system should not be there to protect lawyers.

However, others in the legal profession have downplayed the win by Macquarie University computing lecturer Greg Baker, who marshalled AI agents against senior lawyers to win the first casual conversion order, by characterising him as a superstar unrepresentative of normal applicants.

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