Does AI output have to meet FRE 702 reliability standards?

When AI output is offered through an expert, FRE 702 already governs the expert's reliance on it, and the 2023 amendment sharpened the court's gatekeeping over whether the opinion reliably applies its methods. Proposed FRE 707 would extend 702-style…

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Answer.

Evidence / professional-responsibility rule · FRE 702.

When AI output is offered through an expert, FRE 702 already governs the expert's reliance on it, and the 2023 amendment sharpened the court's gatekeeping over whether the opinion reliably applies its methods. Proposed FRE 707 would extend 702-style reliability scrutiny to machine output offered without an expert. Either way, reliability is the test. Planisphere's reproducible measurement helps meet that standard; it does not itself qualify as expert testimony or provide legal advice.

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The mark behind the answer.

FRE 702 sets the bar an AI output must clear before a tribunal or a client relies on it — reliability, candor, competenc…

expert testimony · reliability gatekeeping.

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More on FRE 702.

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Prepare evidence for FRE 702 review.

First evidence record within 21 days of access · re-runs in a single business day. Planisphere measures model behaviour and emits a reproducible, sha-pinned record — it does not certify, file, or give legal advice.