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Law professors prefer AI answers three times in four

development2026-06-03

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A Stanford blind study found law professors preferred AI answers to student legal questions in roughly 75% of 3,000 comparisons, flagging them as harmful a third as often as human ones.

Reported metric: 75% of 3,000

Reporting date: 2026-06-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 3, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Stanford University

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A law firm sets aside $500M to build its own tools

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Law professors prefer AI answers three times in four
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Reporting date: 2026-06-03
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-03-law-professors-prefer-the-machine
Claim: A Stanford blind study found law professors preferred AI answers to student legal questions in roughly 75% of 3,000 comparisons, flagging them as harmful a third as often as human ones.
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- Welcome to June 3, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-3-2026
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