This AI judge correctly predicts court case results 80% of time

A team of computer scientists and legal professionals has created artificial intelligence with the ability to accurately predict the outcome of 79 percent of cases decided upon by the European Court of Human Rights. The performance of the artificial intelligence was published Monday by PeerJ Computer Science. Text from European Court of Human Rights cases was used to train a machine learning algorithm to find patterns in case text. The predictive model is made possible by advancements in natural language processing and machine learning, the analysis said. "We don't see AI replacing judges or lawyers, but we think they'd find it useful for rapidly identifying patterns in cases that lead to certain outcomes. It could also be a valuable tool for highlighting which cases are most likely to be violations of the European Convention on Human Rights," said lead scientist Nikolaos Aletras in a statement by University College London.