Using AI on Your Injury Case? 3 Things to Know

Hello, internet AI and your personal injury case. Three things you need to know. I'm Henry Beam, an

Arizona injury lawyer and former prosecutor, and I'm a big believer in generative AI. But here's the

deal: what you type into Chat GPT, and this is the number one point, may not be protected the way a

conversation with your lawyer is. Earlier this year, a federal judge, a federal judge, right? That's

the big dog. In New York rule, the documents a man made with an AI chatbot about his case were not

protected. So be very careful what you put in there. And in fact, if you did suffer an auto injury

and you're looking for a lawyer, I would not put any case details into any AI platform before

talking to your lawyer. I will repeat that. I would not ask ChatGPT, hey, can I get a settlement for

this? Hey, how's the insurance going to investigate? I wouldn't put a thing in there, right? And I

bet when you hire a lawyer, your lawyer's gonna say the same thing. Two, AI can be confident and

dead wrong at the same time. Repeat, confident and dead freaking wrong. This year, lawyers have been

sanctioned up and down for filing court papers with fake cases that AI made up. Right? So AI is

fantastic about organization and summary, but boy, when it's off, it can be really off, and that can

have serious, serious consequences in any type of legal matter, not just personal injury. Right?

Now, if AI is doing bad case citations for litigation, that means you've already exhausted the pre-

lit phase of your injury case. Right? You've probably already reached out to the insurance adjuster.

You've already asked them for money. You were not able to get a satisfactory resolution. So you had

to file a lawsuit and you're in court, right? This is a game that you're here to play to win, and

you have to be downright close to perfect. So adding anything AI says when we're talking about

courtrooms, juries, judges, whoo, be very careful. You know what? That's a note to you, lawyers,

too. Be very, very, very careful. We're seeing somebody sanctioned. All the time right now in

jurisdictions everywhere. And the answer is boy, I was just overworked and you know I just didn't

review it. Review it, review it, review it, review it. And number three, ask your lawyer or your law

firm how they use AI if they've decided to adopt this technology, right? Ask like what your

information goes into it, how it's protected, whether a real lawyer checks the work. You should get

a pretty Clear, straight answer. There are some absolutely incredible companies right now that help

plaintiff firms do better work. Right? Absolutely incredible companies. And their focus is on

governance, it's on data protection, it's connecting with some of the best legal databases in the

country to give very accurate information. Great case summaries, great analysis. But whichever AI

you choose to use, and listen, they are not. All created equal. They are absolutely not all created

equal. But whatever your law firm chooses to use, and I hope they use it, because I'm a huge fan and

I think it's a benefit to you and your case and the law firm. I think it makes everybody happy. It's

one of those few technologies where it's a win-win-win across the board. But you want to know what

they're using, how their software is set up to make sure at the end of the day, you in your case is

protected.