Board of Governors adopts ethics guidelines for generative AI use

Florida lawyers have new guidelines for using generative AI after the Board of Governors voted unanimously January 19 to approve Ethics Advisory Opinion 24-1.

Immediately after the vote in a Tallahassee conference room, President Scott Westheimer thanked Board Review Committee on Professional Ethics Chair Brian Burgoon for the panel’s work.

Westheimer said the technology dominates most conversations as he visits with lawyers and judges across the state.

“You can’t imagine the phone calls we get on this issue,” he said. “Every place I go, a DCA judge comes up to me and says a lawyer filed a brief using ChatGPT and there were errors in it.”