AI-Generated Legal Filings Creating Burdens for Court System

Federal judges and legal experts said they are increasingly seeing filings flooding court dockets and clogging an already overburdened system as AI supercharges pro se litigation — even as it opens up the legal system to people who might not otherwise be able to afford to bring a case. Many judges emphasized the seriousness of the immediate workload problem created by AI-enabled pro se filings, including one who characterized the overall problem as “an existential threat to the federal courts.”