AI judges in Court

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I was just reading the thread about the reduction in the prison sentence of Zara Aleena and that had triggered some debate about the race of the victim and the judge as well as people saying sentencing decisions have to be rational.

It strikes me AI has surely got a place in this - eg ability to synthesise vast amounts of data and compare to records of every case that ever happened. AI could start out like an electronic line judge in tennis - shadowing a human decision-maker. You could train it and prove it worked by showing it videos all the recent court judgements and seeing how close it came to the original sentencing decisions.

In the same way could AI replace juries?

you might do away with Court of Appeal as the original case could be reviewed if new evidence came to light in a matter of minutes of presentation.

what do you think?

So a human could train them and that would include training them on all their human biases - I think that would be worse than the original human judge as no recourse with a Robot!

But “a human” trains a judge today … through law, and precedent, and legal texts, and lectures, and debate, and experience- all of which could be uploaded into AI. That’s the point - it learns. So the judiciary- instead of handing down sentences - spend their time dictating to the AI what they would like it to do ie not be racist, not be sexist. Why would you even need a jury?

And instead of just one human’s experience the AI could have the experience of dozens.

Imagine how it would work in cases of financial crime where a jury spends months and months wading in highly technical detail. An AI “jury” wouldn’t need that kind of training.