Google General Counsel Halimah DeLaine Prado: AI Still Can't Replace Human Legal Judgment

Google's general counsel says artificial intelligence still cannot substitute for human judgment in legal decision-making, even as her own company races to embed AI agents throughout corporate legal work. Halimah DeLaine Prado, who has led Google's legal department since 2020, told Axios that the technology can speed up legal work but should not be trusted to make calls that carry real accountability.