AI Briefing3M Uses ChatGPT for Legal Reports
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3M used ChatGPT to draft litigation defense reports, but the jury found 30% fault.
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Regarding the January 2020 Houston Watson Grinding explosion that killed three people and destroyed approximately 200 homes, the jury awarded the plaintiffs $61 million and attributed 30% of the fault to 3M.
According to trial records, expert witness Josh Autenrieth (Knighthawk Engineering), who was paid approximately $90,000 by 3M, extensively used ChatGPT to write his report. During discovery, the plaintiffs' attorneys obtained approximately 350 pages of ChatGPT prompts, and it is estimated that 85–90% of the report was AI-generated.
Autenrieth testified that he "used ChatGPT as an auxiliary tool to draft the report and then revised it to reflect his own opinions," but the plaintiffs criticized him for relying entirely on AI as the primary agent for opinion formation and report writing, rather than as a supplementary tool.
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