Rising AI Use in Canadian Courtrooms Divides Experts

Canadian courts are seeing increased use of artificial intelligence, and experts describe the result as a divide over both access to justice and the value of the work experience it creates for law students, Global News Canada reports.

Those two concerns pull in opposite directions. If AI tools lower the cost of routine legal work, more people might get help they currently cannot afford. If the same tools absorb the tasks that once trained junior lawyers and students, the pipeline that produces competent counsel narrows.

The report attributes the divide to experts; it does not settle how courts are resolving it.