The Expert Record Standard
Eight clauses governing the use of artificial intelligence in expert witness engagements, licensed for verbatim adoption.
An engagement satisfies this standard when a competent examiner in the same field, working only from the primary sources, with no access to any artificial intelligence system, could reproduce the expert's result.
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Expert witness
A witness permitted to state an opinion because of specialized knowledge, whose methodology is open to examination.
An expert's methodology has always been open to examination. That is the condition on which opinion testimony is received at all.
The Expert Record Standard — Hartzer Press
Artificial intelligence
Systems that generate content, analysis, summaries, or conclusions in response to a request.
In this standard, system means any artificial intelligence system that generates content, analysis, summaries, or conclusions in response to a request, whether accessed directly or operating inside other software.
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Expert report
The written statement of a retained expert's opinions and their bases.
Nothing enters the report on the authority of a system. Every citation, figure, date, quotation and specification is confirmed against a source that exists independently of the system.
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Maintained reference
Sections of this site kept current with a checked-on date.
The case record, the working papers and errata are maintained here because they change; the book carries the method, which does not.
The Expert Record — Hartzer Press