📖 Today’s lesson
Lesson 8: Research assistants that cite — and sometimes invent.
Search-connected AI compresses hours of secondary-source reading into minutes — as a starting map, never a filing. Lawyers have been sanctioned for citing AI-invented cases. Every citation gets verified in a real database. Every one.
Why this matters: The infamous sanctions cases all share one failure: a lawyer filed AI output without checking it. Used correctly — synthesis first, verification always — research AI is the biggest time-saver in your week. Used lazily, it ends careers. Today you learn the correct way.