AI In The Witness Box

Logixly Live Unsupervised Learning Podcast · Sep 3, 2026 · 18m · transcript

An expert witness gets paid about $90,000, submits a 30-page report, and later admits under oath that roughly 85 to 90 percent of it was generated by ChatGPT. This is a real legal story and it forces an uncomfortable question: when AI helps write the “expert” opinion, what are juries and judges actually evaluating?

We walk through the timeline from a 2020 Houston facility explosion to a 2026 trial, then unpack how discovery surfaced a five-page document that looked AI-written and led to hundreds of pages of ChatGPT history. We debate the most controversial detail, a prompt that aims to defend…