Acting on a request to safeguard “the foundational principles of our legal system,” the Code and Rules of Evidence Committee is proposing a statutory definition for artificial intelligence.

The committee voted 28-1 to approve the proposal at an October 17 virtual meeting. Later the same morning, committee member Kristina Feher told the Standing Committee on Professionalism that the proposed definition is a “starting position.”

Feher heads an AI working group that is planning to produce a CLE on the emerging technology later this spring. Many Florida lawyers are still getting up to speed on AI, she said.