NST Leader: Artificial Intelligence in court

Not as a defendant -- it would have been a novel case had it been so -- but as an aid to help the magistrate with sentencing. Trends elsewhere suggest something more. But if a machine should one day sit at the bench presiding over a court battle between men and men, then it will be a surrender most ominous. There are at least two reasons why we should not defer to machines. It is true that AI can do many complicated things.