AI in Miami, Florida

Miami, Florida by the numbers

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023, Miami-Dade County.

Population

2,685,296

Median household income

$68,694

Unemployment rate

4.4%

Largest industry

Education/Health Services

Share in that industry

20.6%

Poverty rate

14.7%

Median home value

$425,400

Read the full AI ethics guide for Miami-Dade County

Government

• Miami-Dade County policy on artificial intelligence (Directive 231203)

  A mayoral report of 22 March 2024 responding to Directive No. 231203 sets out the county policy on AI: guiding principles for use by departments and employees, an AI study, and an assessment of the staffing the work would require. The staffing assessment is the unusual element — most jurisdictions publish principles without ever costing the people needed to apply them.

  Source: Office of the Mayor, Miami-Dade County · verified November 2026

• Miami-Dade County Artificial Intelligence Report 2025

  The county reports on its AI work to the board in writing on a recurring basis, with the 2025 edition published openly. Recurring written reporting to an elected body is the accountability mechanism that separates a policy from an intention, and Miami-Dade is one of a small number of US jurisdictions doing it in public.

  Source: Miami-Dade County · verified November 2026

• Miami-Dade County Artificial Intelligence Report — policies, principles and guidelines

  The county published a consolidated report covering its AI policies, principles and guidelines in one document. For an organisation in Miami-Dade this is the single artifact to read first: it states what the county expects of itself, which is the closest available proxy for what it will expect of a supplier.

  Source: American Planning Association · verified November 2026

• Miami-Dade County AI resource guide

  The county maintains a public AI resource guide collecting its reports and guidance in one place. A maintained landing page sounds trivial and is not: it is the difference between material that exists and material a resident or supplier can actually find without knowing the document number.

  Source: Miami-Dade County · verified November 2026

• Eleventh Judicial Circuit Order 26-04 — AI certification in filings

  Issued 15 January 2026 for the circuit serving Miami-Dade County, the order required a filer using generative AI to certify that all factual assertions, legal authority and citations had been independently reviewed and verified, and that the signer accepted full responsibility for the contents. SUPERSEDED by the statewide rule effective 15 June 2026. The responsibility clause is why it is still worth reading in Miami-Dade County: it forecloses the argument that the model produced the error.

  Source: Esquire Deposition Solutions · verified November 2026

• Two Florida circuits, two different certifications

  The Eleventh Circuit order of 15 January 2026 and the Seventeenth Circuit order of 26 January 2026 were issued eleven days apart and worded their certifications differently — one centring responsibility for contents, the other verification of every citation. That divergence is exactly why both were preempted five months later by a single statewide rule. For Miami-Dade County it is a documented case of circuit-by-circuit AI rulemaking being tried and abandoned inside half a year.

  Source: Esquire Deposition Solutions · verified November 2026

• 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 Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade 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

Training

• Miami-Dade AI staffing and capability assessment

  The county assessed the staffing its AI programme would require rather than assuming existing teams could absorb it. For Miami employers this is the most transferable part of the county work: the honest question is not whether to adopt AI but who is going to be accountable for it, and that has a headcount.

  Source: Office of the Mayor, Miami-Dade County · verified November 2026

• University of Miami BS in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

  A full undergraduate degree in data science and AI through the Department of Computer Science, alongside FIU's College of Engineering and Computing, which runs multiple research labs employing AI. Two universities with AI programmes inside Miami-Dade County is the local pipeline, and it matters more here than in most markets because Florida has no enacted statewide AI statute — the expertise is local even where the rules are not.

  Source: University of Miami · 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 Miami-Dade County is most likely to want to read in the original.

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

Organization

• Frost Institute for Data Science and Computing, University of Miami

  Led by Nick Tsinoremas, vice provost for research computing and data, IDSC runs data-intensive research from medicine to earth sciences, urban planning, digital humanities and business, organised around research programmes including one dedicated to artificial intelligence and machine learning. It operates the Pegasus and Triton supercomputers and a 5G edge computing environment, which makes it one of the few places in Miami-Dade County where a claim about compute can be checked rather than accepted.

  Source: University of Miami · verified November 2026

• FIU Applied Research Center — applied artificial intelligence

  The Applied Research Center at Florida International University, on West Flagler Street in Miami, performs applied and advanced research in artificial intelligence, cyber security and enterprise systems, delivering work in computer vision, robotics, IoT, sensors and networks for federal and state governments and national laboratories, and operates an AI and Big Data Hub with CPU and GPU servers. Research delivered to government rather than to industry is a different kind of neighbour for Miami-Dade County.

  Source: Florida International University Applied Research Center · verified November 2026

• FIU AI Center of Excellence and the ADAM initiative

  FIU runs an AI Center of Excellence as a hub for research and collaboration, alongside ADAM, which covers the university's work across AI, data science and machine learning. Two universities with named AI centres inside Miami-Dade County is unusual for a market whose state has enacted no AI statute — the expertise here is considerably ahead of the rules.

  Source: Florida International University · verified November 2026

Event

• AI 305 Conference

  A conference held at FIU examining the university's role in the region's AI development, named for the local area code. A recurring public event named after Miami-Dade County's own dialling code is about as local as an AI gathering gets, and it is the realistic entry point for a business here.

  Source: Florida International University · 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 Miami-Dade County may have no other route to an answer.

  Source: Florida Legislature (HB 907) · 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 Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade County relying on a model to draft, the exposure is now specific and personal.

  Source: Florida Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company · verified November 2026

Other FL markets

• Jacksonville, Florida
• Tampa, Florida
• Orlando, Florida
• St. Petersburg, Florida
• Hialeah, Florida
• Port St. Lucie, Florida
• Cape Coral, Florida
• Tallahassee, Florida
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Pembroke Pines, Florida
• Hollywood, Florida
• Gainesville, Florida
• Miramar, Florida
• Coral Springs, Florida
• Lehigh Acres, Florida
• Palm Bay, Florida
• West Palm Beach, Florida
• Spring Hill, Florida
• Clearwater, Florida
• Lakeland, Florida
• Brandon, Florida
• Pompano Beach, Florida
• Miami Gardens, Florida
• Riverview, Florida
• Davie, Florida

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