Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence

Shawn Aiken Arbitration uses AI-assisted tools for document organization, record review, legal research, quality control, and preparing and revising drafts. The tools assist; the Arbitrator decides. The following principles govern that use.

The Arbitrator makes all procedural and merits decisions, factual findings, credibility assessments, legal conclusions, and awards. AI may organize information, summarize materials, identify issues, and prepare or revise draft language, but the Arbitrator adopts no AI output without independent review and judgment.

Factual findings rest on the evidentiary record. The Arbitrator will not rely on case-specific facts generated outside the record without disclosing them to the parties and allowing a reasonable opportunity to comment.

No AI output is itself treated as legal authority. The Arbitrator checks substantive AI output against the record and authoritative sources. Citations, quotations, record references, calculations, and material factual or legal propositions are independently verified before any order or award is issued.

Confidential case material is submitted only to tools approved for that use under the Arbitrator’s AI Policy and only when the applicable terms and settings provide appropriate confidentiality, security, data-use, and retention controls and prohibit use of the material to train a general-purpose AI model.

AI-assisted recording or transcription occurs only with appropriate notice and any consent required by applicable law or case order. Recordings and transcripts are confidential case material and are not the official record unless the parties agree or the Arbitrator so orders.

This statement is published here and referenced in the Arbitrator’s AAA neutral profile. The Arbitrator will make case-specific disclosure when an intended use of generative AI could materially affect the arbitration process or the reasoning behind a decision, and will give the parties a reasonable opportunity to comment. On reasonable request, the Arbitrator will provide further information about a disclosed use, subject to confidentiality, security, and the protection of deliberative materials.

The Arbitrator reviews this statement and its supporting safeguards regularly and updates them as technology, vendor practices, and professional guidance evolve. Parties may raise questions with the Arbitrator at any time.

Informed by the AAAi Standards for AI in ADR (May 2025); AAA-ICDR Guidance on Arbitrators’ Use of AI Tools (January 2026); Silicon Valley Arbitration & Mediation Center Guidelines on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Arbitration (2024); and Ciarb Guideline on the Use of AI in Arbitration (2025).

Version 1.7—August 20, 2026

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