A federal judicial panel's proposal to regulate the introduction of artificial intelligence-generated evidence at trial received a lukewarm reception from corporate lawyers and class-action attorneys, who called it a well-intended but premature attempt to address an evolving technology.
The U.S. Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules received that feedback at a hearing to consider a proposed rule, designed to ensure evidence produced by generative AI technology meets the same reliability standards as evidence from a human expert witness.
Several lawyers said that while they appreciated the judiciary's effort to get in front of the issue, its draft rule was addressing a problem that may not yet exist, and that the proposal should be either reworked or scrapped. Read more in Nate Raymond’s update on the hearing.
