When the Avianca airline serving cart allegedly bumped into the knee of Roberto Mata on a flight to New York four summers ago, few could have predicted that the lawsuit that ensued would soon become the prime example of how generative artificial intelligence tools can hallucinate. 

Now, six months after the New York lawyer involved in the Mata v. Avianca case submitted a ChatGPT-written brief with fake case citations to the court, the list of risks that the legal industry is worried about has grown, with considerations around bias and cybersecurity threats inching their way to the top.