AI Evidence Rule Proposals Move Ahead at Federal Courts Panel

A federal judiciary rules committee will move forward with drafting potential rule changes about artificial intelligence.

The Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules voted Friday to work further on proposals that would address issues about “deepfakes” and the reliability of materials generated by AI tools.

US District Judge Jesse Furman, the committee’s chairman, suggested that the panel could work on a rule on deepfakes — videos or images created by AI that can accurately replicate humans — but sideline it for now, as the issue doesn’t seem to be a prominent one in courts.

“We ought to have it on our ...