Overview

• Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, admitted to unwittingly providing his attorney with fake legal case citations generated by artificial intelligence (AI) service Google Bard.
• The fake citations were used in a bid to end Cohen's court supervision early, following his 2018 guilty plea for tax evasion, campaign finance offenses, and lying to Congress.
• Cohen blamed his lawyer, David Schwartz, for not verifying the validity of the citations before submitting them to the court.
• The incident could potentially impact Cohen's credibility as a witness in ongoing fraud cases against Trump.
• This is the second time this year that a Manhattan federal court has dealt with lawyers citing fake cases generated by AI.