artificial intelligence system beat human
New Artificial Intelligence system beats humans at predicting court outcomes
Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can predict court decisions better than legal scholars, even with less information. Researchers, including those from The Stanford Centre for Legal Informatics, used the US Supreme Court Database – which contains information on cases dating back to 1791. Using this, they built an algorithm for predicting any justice's vote at any time. Researchers drew on 16 features of each vote, including the justice, the term, the issue, and the court of origin. They also added other factors, such as whether oral arguments were heard.