AI use creates artificial sense of confidence in campus legal matters

Consider the following scenarios: A student unhappy with a grade cites three federal regulations and a circuit court opinion in an email to a professor. An employee facing a corrective action plan submits a two‐page rebuttal organized by legal elements, complete with case citations. A community member follows up an open‐records request with a follow‐up letter quoting the statute's response deadline down to the business day. None of these individuals has ever consulted an attorney. All of them have an artificial intelligence partner open in another tab.