While underscoring judges' role, top court says intelligent tech will improve system A competent artificial intelligence system to support the judicial sector is expected to be set up by 2025 to help improve legal services, China's top court said. The goal was embedded in the Opinions on Regulating and Strengthening the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Judicial Fields, a 20-article guideline issued on Friday by the Supreme People's Court. The document reveals that a better regulated and more effective application and theoretical system for AI utilization in the judicial sector will be set up by 2030 to serve the people and support the entire case-handling process. The top court said that in issuing the document, it aims to promote the in-depth integration of AI with judicial work, strengthen the creation of smart courts and work toward a higher level of digital justice. While calling for advancing the application of AI, the document highlights the legality and security of applying AI to judicial affairs, with stipulation that the technological promotion and application not damage national security, infringe upon State secrets or violate personal data security.

The United Nations's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary killings presented a new report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. Agnes Callamard's investigation focused on the legality of armed drones including one that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani near Baghdad's airport on January 3. It concluded the United States acted unlawfully in carrying out the attack. The US, meanwhile, denounced her findings. Callamard spoke to Al Jazeera about her probe and the future of drone warfare.