The Kennedy-Mighell Report The Expanding Minefield of Legal AI
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May 29, 2026 They dig into hidden legal AI dangers like semantic flattening, drift, and overconfidence in fluent but lossy outputs. They explore how long sessions and lazy review can warp documents and create risky feedback loops. They call out marketing hype and urge practical testing, better information hygiene, and vigilant supervision.
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Drift Is The AI Version Of Telephone
- Drift is the gradual movement of AI output away from original instructions through sessions of summaries and follow-ups.
- Tom Mighell likens it to the telephone game where each step seems reasonable but the end result diverges from the matter's facts and purpose.
Always Verify AI Drafts Against Sources
- Treat AI output as a draft and verify it against the original sources and matter facts at every step.
- Tom Mighell urges lawyers to compare summaries to originals and check each step to prevent lazy review errors.
60-Day Notice Example Shows Overconfidence
- Dennis Kennedy fed a contract to AI asking whether a 60-day notice meant 'at least 60 days' and got a confidently wrong legal-sounding answer.
- The example shows AI can assert legal conclusions without the nuanced practice debates lawyers expect.
