In re Creation of Arkansas Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 25. Artificial Intelligence

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The use of AI has become increasingly prominent. Members of the public, attorneys, and personnel who interact in the State’s justice system may be using it intentionally, or even unintentionally. We now publish for comment the proposed new Administrative Order No. 25: Artificial Intelligence. It begins by specifically addressing the use of generative artificial intelligence with confidential court data. The comment period shall end on August 1, 2025. Comments should be submitted in writing to: Kyle E. Burton, Clerk of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Attention: The Creation of Administrative Order No. 25, Justice Building, 625 Marshall Street, Little Rock, AR 72201, or by email: rulescomments@arcourts.gov. The court will consider any submitted comments and make subsequent changes if necessary. Order 25. Artificial Intelligence. Section 1. Awareness. Everyone participating in the court system must be mindful of the following when entering client or court data into any electronic system that generates responses or generative artificial intelligence (GAI): (a) Certain GAI tools retain the data submitted into their system and use it to keep building their large language models (LLM), or what you would consider their database. (b) Anyone who enters confidential or sealed