AI hallucinations pose an existential risk to existing laws and social order.
The authenticity of documents in general and legal documents (e.g., statutes,
regulations, bills, caselaw) in particular, is seriously jeopardized if Large Language
Models (LLMs) produce – and we accept – false legal precedents. With the rise of the
“AI empire”, humans must secure our societies’ legal foundations. This chapter will
explore the risks of AI hallucinations and will provide a solution based on a document
authenticity verification system. This is crucial to our survival as a society and should
be built into all AI processors that deal with legal documents. Governments should
enact legislation that requires AI systems to include methods of verification. This is
fundamental to the rule of law in the age of AI.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, AI, AI hallucinations, Large language models, Law, Regulation of technology.
