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AI in Clearwater, Florida

Clearwater, FL is a major regional employment centre, with Pinellas County home to 960,565 residents at the 2023 American Community Survey. Education/Health Services leads employment here, so the questions that bite are clinical decision support, patient data, and vendor claims that cannot be independently checked. This page collects the rules that apply, the accountability questions worth asking, and the evidence an organisation is expected to be able to produce.

AI governance in Clearwater, Florida is shaped by published public-sector policy and local research institutions. This hub records 13 verified resources for Pinellas County, each carrying the source it came from and the date it was last checked.

Clearwater, Florida by the numbers

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023, Pinellas County.

Population
960,565
Median household income
$70,293
Unemployment rate
4.6%
Largest industry
Education/Health Services
Share in that industry
21.9%
Poverty rate
11.2%
Median home value
$319,000

Read the full AI ethics guide for Pinellas County

Organization

  • USF St. Petersburg Behavioral AI Lab

    USF operates a Behavioral AI Lab with a physical laboratory on the St. Petersburg campus, accessible remotely for online data collection and analysis, open to researchers across all three USF campuses. USF St. Petersburg is the only public university in Pinellas County, which makes it the single point of independent technical judgement locally rather than one option among several.

    Source: University of South Florida · verified November 2026

  • USF Institute for Artificial Intelligence + X

    A university-wide research and education centre running externally funded AI research across healthcare, medicine, cybersecurity, finance, business, manufacturing and transportation. The breadth is the point for Pinellas County: the sectors listed are the ones where an AI decision reaches an ordinary person, and the institute is reachable from the St. Petersburg campus.

    Source: University of South Florida · verified November 2026

Training

  • Eckerd College artificial intelligence minor

    Eckerd, in St. Petersburg, offers an AI minor letting students explore the role of artificial intelligence across disciplines — communication and marketing, computer science, entrepreneurship and philosophy. Philosophy sitting in the same minor as computer science is deliberate and rare, and it produces the kind of graduate a Pinellas County employer needs when the question is whether a system should be used at all.

    Source: Eckerd College · verified November 2026

  • Florida HB 1361, artificial intelligence in education

    Enacted in 2024 under the subject of education. Legislating AI in schools reaches the youngest people affected by it and the ones with the least say, which makes it the entry a parent in Pinellas County is most likely to want to read in the original.

    Source: Florida Legislature (HB 1361) · verified November 2026

Event

  • St. Petersburg Innovation District education programming

    The St. Petersburg Innovation District runs education programming connecting local institutions, including USF St. Petersburg and Eckerd, on technology and STEM. A district-level convener matters in Pinellas County because the two universities here are small relative to the region's employers, and the district is where they meet those employers.

    Source: St. Petersburg Innovation District · verified November 2026

Case study

  • Florida HB 907, the Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases

    Enacted in 2025 and listed by NCSL among the state artificial intelligence legislation, HB 907 establishes a Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases with a pilot programme for research. Rare disease is one of the few areas where these methods have an argument that is hard to counter: the patient populations are too small for conventional study design, and a family in Pinellas County may have no other route to an answer.

    Source: Florida Legislature (HB 907) · verified November 2026

Government

  • What Florida did not pass in 2025

    NCSL records that beyond HB 907 and the appropriations bill SB 2500, every other AI bill Florida considered in the 2025 session failed or was vetoed. That is worth stating as plainly as the enactments: a Pinellas County organisation reading about the 2024 statutes should know the legislature looked at going further the following year and chose not to, so the obligations in force are the ones already on the books and no more.

    Source: National Conference of State Legislatures · verified November 2026

  • Florida HB 919, artificial intelligence in political advertising

    Enacted in 2024 and recorded by the National Conference of State Legislatures, HB 919 governs the use of artificial intelligence in political advertising. Of everything a state can legislate here this is the one that touches Pinellas County most directly and least visibly: a synthetic advertisement is aimed at voters who have no way of telling, and a disclosure duty is the only thing that closes that gap.

    Source: Florida Legislature (HB 919) · verified November 2026

  • Florida SB 1680, artificial intelligence transparency

    Enacted in 2024 under the subject of artificial intelligence transparency. Transparency legislated as its own statute rather than folded into a technology bill is worth noting, because it establishes disclosure as the default expectation in Pinellas County rather than something an organisation opts into.

    Source: Florida Legislature (SB 1680) · verified November 2026

  • Florida Rule of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.515(d)(2)

    Amended by the Supreme Court of Florida on 28 May 2026 and effective 15 June 2026, the rule requires the signer of any document filed in a Florida court to certify that all legal authorities cited exist and are accurately cited. It binds attorneys and self-represented litigants alike, so a Pinellas County resident filing without a lawyer carries the same duty as a firm.

    Source: Supreme Court of Florida · verified November 2026

  • One statewide standard replacing the circuit patchwork

    The Court simultaneously entered an administrative order preempting the circuit court administrative orders that had required AI-specific disclosures, explicitly to replace a patchwork with a uniform statewide standard. The shift is instructive for Pinellas County: Florida tried circuit-by-circuit AI disclosure for about five months, then abandoned it — and the rule that replaced it regulates the ACCURACY of citations rather than the use of the tool.

    Source: Supreme Court of Florida · verified November 2026

Procurement

  • Florida SB 7018, the Health Care Innovation Council

    Enacted in 2024, recorded by NCSL among the state artificial intelligence legislation, establishing a Health Care Innovation Council. Health care is where automated decisions reach people with the least capacity to argue back, so a standing council rather than a one-off review is the arrangement Pinellas County residents should want examining what gets adopted.

    Source: Florida Legislature (SB 7018) · verified November 2026

  • Sanctions for nonexistent or inaccurately cited authorities

    The Court added an explicit sanctions provision letting judges impose reprimands, contempt findings, striking of pleadings, dismissal, costs, attorneys' fees and other remedies after notice and an opportunity to be heard. Naming the penalties is what makes this enforceable rather than advisory, and for anyone in Pinellas County relying on a model to draft, the exposure is now specific and personal.

    Source: Florida Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company · verified November 2026

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Questions about AI in Clearwater, Florida

Which AI rules apply to organisations in Clearwater, Florida?

This hub records 7 verified public-sector AI resources covering Clearwater, Florida, including What Florida did not pass in 2025, Florida HB 919, artificial intelligence in political advertising and Florida SB 1680, artificial intelligence transparency. Each entry names the body that issued it and links to the source, so the position can be checked rather than taken on trust. Rules reach an organisation from more than one level at once — a state instrument and a county or city policy can both apply — which is why they are listed together here.

Where can an organisation in Clearwater, Florida get independent AI expertise?

2 verified organisations are are recorded for this market, including USF St. Petersburg Behavioral AI Lab and USF Institute for Artificial Intelligence + X. Independence is the point: most AI guidance an organisation encounters is published by a company selling a mitigation for the risk it is describing, and a local research institution is one of the few sources without that conflict.

What AI training or workforce provision exists in Clearwater, Florida?

This hub records 3 verified training, workforce or event resources for Clearwater, Florida, including Eckerd College artificial intelligence minor, St. Petersburg Innovation District education programming and Florida HB 1361, artificial intelligence in education. Whether a policy is understood rather than merely circulated usually turns on training, so this is recorded separately from the rules themselves.

What does the local economy mean for AI adoption in Clearwater, Florida?

Pinellas County has a population of 960,565, and Education/Health Services leads employment at roughly 21%. Sector matters more than size when working out which AI obligations bite: the questions facing a health-dominated economy are not the questions facing a manufacturing one, and a policy borrowed from the wrong sector tends to be enforced by nobody. Figures are US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2023.

Is this hub for Clearwater, Florida complete?

This hub is listed in search results only once it passes a published quality threshold, which requires verified local resources with independent sources for this specific place rather than restated national guidance. It has now met that threshold. It records 13 resources today and is added to as more material is verified, and anything unverified is left out rather than estimated.

Guides that apply anywhere, including Clearwater, Florida

The rules differ by place; the questions to ask do not.

About this hub

Clearwater, Florida is a local hub of AI Coalition Network, an independent research organisation that ranks AI companies on ethics and publishes plain-language guides to AI governance and policy. Local statistics come from the US Census Bureau and carry the survey year. Nothing here is legal, tax, accounting or compliance advice.

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