Extract from Cedra Mayfeild’s article “A.I. and Evidence: Courts Say Hands-On Programs Coming Soon”
The Judicial Council of Georgia Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence has outlined next steps toward implementing generative artificial intelligence into court rules and procedures.
After a 10-month review period, the committee has issued its first report of findings and recommendations.
In addition to highlighting how AI implementation could improve judicial efficiency, access to justice and administrative performance, the report identified implications for existing conduct rules while cautioning against full automation in judicial decision-making.
Under the leadership of the Supreme Court of Georgia’s youngest sitting jurist, Justice Andrew A. Pinson, the committee identified areas of concern ranging from the ethical application of AI, data security and procedural integrity to areas of opportunity including education, information technology and vendor management.
“In the ten months the Committee met, there were multiple advances and developments in the use of AI technologies and their corresponding impact on and potential for courts and their stakeholders,” the committee report read. “Notable examples include attorneys sanctioned for filing briefs with fake citations generated by AI, a court piloting the use of AI to expedite the creation of transcripts, changes in approaches regulating the use of AI at state and national levels, courts establishing policy or court rules around AI, a supreme court using AI avatars to make opinions more acceptable, and a family using an AI generated video to provide a victim impact statement from the deceased.”
