Pennsylvania Justices Issue Rules on AI Use for State’s Courts

Pennsylvania judges and court staff can use approved artificial intelligence tools to draft certain documents, but are responsible for the accuracy of any information AI-generated incorporated into their work under an interim policy issued by the state’s high court.

Court personnel must be cognizant that AI systems “may not consider nuances human take into consideration” and may be trained on and generate biased materials, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court cautioned in a Tuesday order.

The rising use of generative AI tools—and several instances of the technology generating fictitious case citations—has led courts to grapple with questions of how to ...