The Expanding Minefield of Legal AI I’ve been tracking a subtle but dangerous shift in the legal tech landscape. For the last few years, the entire industry has been obsessed with “hallucinations”—obvious, glaring errors like fake case citations . But as Tom Mighell and I discussed on episode 418 of The Kennedy-Mighell Report , focusing strictly on fake cases misses the real threat . The quiet, structural issues emerging right now are far more critical to the future of Legal AI. Let’s strip away the marketing fluff and look at the underlying science of AI tools. The Structural Fault Lines Semantic Flattening: This is the standard technical term for what occurs when a system generates highly fluent prose but flattens critical distinctions. My way of describing
