Artificially intelligent 'judge' predicts result of human rights trials with 79% accuracy

An artificial intelligence that predicts the outcome of court proceedings may sound like a futuristic dream. But a new study claims to have developed an AI that predict the results of human rights trials with 79 per cent accuracy. The technology is the first to predict the outcomes of major international court trials by analysing case text using a machine learning algorithm, claim the researchers. The researchers looked at case information by the ECtHR in its publicly accessible database. The team identified English language data sets for 584 cases relating to Articles 3, 6 and 8* of the European Convention of Human Rights.