EXPLORING THE POTENTIALS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLGIENCE IN THE JUDICIARY

Abstract

In recent years, there has been massive progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the development of machine learning, deep neural networks, natural language processing, computer vision and robotics. These techniques are now actively being applied in the judiciary with many of the legal service activities currently being delivered by lawyers predicted to be taken over by AI in the coming years. This paper explores the potentials and efficiency of Artificial intelligence (AI) in justice delivery. The paper has two objectives: first to highlight the main applications of AI in justice administrations through some examples of AI tools recently developed; second, to assess the ethical challenges of AI in the judiciary. Artificial Intelligence algorithms are starting to support lawyers, for instance, through artificial intelligence search tools, or to support justice administrations with predictive technologies and business analytics based on the computation of Big Data. Using the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Legal knowledgebased tools may accelerate the service delivery of legal professionals from typical searching of related case journals to extraction of precise information in a customized manner.