AI hallucination cases in Australia
Butler and National Disability Insurance Agency
[2025] ARTA 1579
| Detail | What the trackers record |
|---|---|
| Court | Administrative Review Tribunal |
| Jurisdiction | Commonwealth |
| Date | 28 August 2025 |
| Who used AI | Expert |
| Tool named by the trackers | Not named |
| Sanction for the AI use | No professional sanction |
| Outcome | Tribunal criticised the reliability of AI-assisted expert reports and gave them reduced weight |
| Citation | [2025] ARTA 1579 |
Summary from the trackers
Charlotin database
The Agency raised concerns that several expert reports were prepared with assistance of an artificial intelligence program and contained unverified citations and inserted text. The Tribunal noted admissions by at least one practitioner (Ms McPhee) that AI assisted drafting and found instances where citations had been corrected by another witness and where the author could not confirm whether AI added certain phrases. The Tribunal criticised the lack of independent verification and gave the repor
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Court AI rules
Sources
- AI Hallucination Cases Database, Damien Charlotin (CC BY 4.0)
- Judgment copy cited by the Charlotin database
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