How Artificial Intelligence Can Help the Judiciary - Yseop

The Guardian recently reported on a new AI software capable of predicting the outcome of trials developed by a group of British scientists at University College London.[1] After examining English language data sets for 584 cases relating to torture and degrading treatment, fair trials, and privacy, the AI verdict was the same as the one delivered by the court in 79% of the cases. What's the point, you may ask? Not to replace judges and juries by artificial intelligence, if that's what you fear. As the lead researcher on this project, Dr. Nikolaos Aletras, explains: "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.