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David Schweikert
Representative · R-AZ
Representative · R-AZ
The bill lets parties use limited AI assistance to speed and lower the cost of arbitration with mutual consent and a ban on generative models, but it leaves significant gaps in data protections, accountability, and remedies for AI errors that could disadvantage less-resourced or harmed parties.
Small-business owners and taxpayers can use AI to identify relevant law and recommend document organization, speeding case preparation and lowering legal costs for disputing parties.
Hospitals, health systems, and small-business owners may see faster resolutions and reduced arbitration backlogs because arbitrators may accept AI-delivered final decisions, streamlining timelines.
People with disabilities and small-business owners retain greater control over whether AI is used because the bill requires written mutual consent before any AI assistance is employed in proceedings.
Small-business owners and hospitals that consent to AI-assisted procedures may be unable to vacate or modify an arbitration award solely because of an AI error, leaving harmed parties with limited remedies.
Hospitals, health systems, and people with disabilities face risk that sensitive case data could be exposed because the bill does not establish data-handling or confidentiality standards for AI tools.
Taxpayers and small-business owners may encounter accuracy and accountability problems when AI files supporting documents or delivers decisions, since misapplied law by AI could influence outcomes despite the ban on generative models.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Permits non-generative AI in private arbitration with written mutual consent, bans generative AI, and bars vacatur based solely on AI error.
Official title: To permit the use of artificial intelligence in arbitration, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 15, 2026 by David Schweikert · Last progress July 15, 2026
Authorizes parties in private arbitration to use non-generative artificial intelligence tools for specified tasks (researching law, organizing documents, filing undisputed evidence, issuing decisions, and other party-agreed uses) if every party gives written consent. The bill bars use of generative AI, requires mutual written consent before AI use, and prevents a court from vacating, modifying, or correcting an arbitration award solely because of an AI error.