Artificial Intelligence #legal qa#statute retrieval
New Legal QA Benchmark Exposes Hallucination Risks in Statute-Centric AI Retrieval
Researchers have introduced SearchFireSafety, a benchmark for statute-centric legal QA that evaluates hierarchical retrieval and safety. The study found that while graph-guided retrieval improves performance, domain-adapted large language models are more likely to hallucinate when key statutory evidence is missing, highlighting a critical safety trade-off.
Jun 17, 2026 1 source