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

Supreme Court of Arkansas · State supreme courts · AR · · 2025 Ark. 220 · opinion

The Arkansas Supreme Court adopts Administrative Order No. 25 after a comment period with no substantive comments. The new order requires court participants to consider confidentiality and data-retention risks before entering court or client data into generative-AI systems.

Disposition
The court adopted Administrative Order No. 25 on artificial intelligence effective immediately.

What the court wrote

Verbatim from the court's document (public domain). Ellipses mark omitted text; nothing is paraphrased.

On June 5, 2025, we published for comment a proposed Administrative Order No. 25: Artificial Intelligence. It specifically addressed the use of generative artificial intelligence with confidential court data. See In re Creation of Ark. Sup. Ct. Admin. Order No. 25, 2025 Ark. 117 (per curiam). The comment period closed without substantive comments. The court adopts Administrative Order No. 25 as provided below effective immediately. 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 uses 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 information into a GAI should determine whether the system is retaining and using the confidential or sealed data. A public LLM is accessible to anyone

Authorities cited in the passage: In re Creation of Ark. Sup. Ct. Admin. Order No. 25, 2025 Ark. 117

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