Suddenly everyone is a lawyer (with hallucinations)
Artificial intelligence was sold to employers as a way to tame paperwork, spot risks early and ease the load on HR teams.
But in Canada, AI is starting to appear in legal dust-ups – from self-represented parties submitting AI-generated “research” to regulators warning that algorithmic hiring tools could land employers in front of a human rights tribunal.
For HR leaders, the question is becoming hard to avoid: is AI improving fairness in the workplace, or simply generating a new category of avoidable claims and administrative work?
The starkest warning so far comes from Quebec.
In a recent case before the Quebec Superior Court, a self-represented litigant was fined C$5,000 after he filed submissions packed with non-existent cases and bogus citations generated by an AI tool. The judge described the conduct as “highly reprehensible” and a serious breach of procedure, stressing that AI output must be rigorously checked by humans before it ever reaches a courtroom.
The dispute itself had nothing to do with employment. But the behaviour – a non-lawyer asking an AI to build their case, then dropping the result into formal documents – is exactly what employment and human-rights lawyers say they are now seeing in workplace disputes.
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