Why AI Cannot Replace Human Stenographers — and Why the Math Finally Caught Up With the Marketing

A former AI CEO and his Stanford-trained son just proved what court reporters have been warning for years: AI systems have a hard computational ceiling. When real-world tasks exceed it—as legal proceedings routinely do—AI doesn’t “struggle.” It hallucinates. That limitation isn’t temporary or ethical. It’s mathematical. And it explains why human stenographers remain irreplaceable in the creation of a legal record.