In the last years, there is a growing interest in the technological development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and on its potential and effective application for the development of tools supporting justice professionals' work. Artificial intelligence involves all types of technologies characterized by a machine mimicking "cognitive" functions associated with human mind, such as "learning", "problem solving", "natural language processing" etc. Artificial intelligence is applied in several fields as autonomous vehicles (such as drones and self-driving cars) or medical diagnosis. There is a growing utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms for applications supporting justice professionals' work. As of today, most of these applications are developed for lawyers. As an example, "Ross", an artificial intelligence search tool, is utilized in law firms for supporting online legal search (of sentences and laws) through keywords. Despite most of the actual applications are utilized by lawyers, some other applications begin to be introduced in the justice system, and regard in particular predictive technologies and business analytics, based on the computation of large amount of data (Big Data). For example, "Compas", a risk assessment tool, is used in the U.S. by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to determine if an offender has a high or low risk of recidivism. The next session of this report briefly introduces some examples of AI applications utilized in the justice context distinguishing between applications utilized by lawyers and AI applications developed for the justice system. It is worth saying that the information provided in this section are manly based on the data provided by the companies developing the systems and not from an empirical analysis of the systems. Following, a section briefly introduces the blockchain technology and its potential application in the justice system. A final section deals with the implications of AI in justice; some of these issues emerged during the discussion of the Towards Cyberjustice Workshop "Current State and Future Prospects for Justice and Legal Technology" (Bologna. 10 - 11 May, 2018).
Artificial Intelligence in the Judiciary: some examples and implications
Giampiero Lupo
2018
Abstract
In the last years, there is a growing interest in the technological development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and on its potential and effective application for the development of tools supporting justice professionals' work. Artificial intelligence involves all types of technologies characterized by a machine mimicking "cognitive" functions associated with human mind, such as "learning", "problem solving", "natural language processing" etc. Artificial intelligence is applied in several fields as autonomous vehicles (such as drones and self-driving cars) or medical diagnosis. There is a growing utilization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms for applications supporting justice professionals' work. As of today, most of these applications are developed for lawyers. As an example, "Ross", an artificial intelligence search tool, is utilized in law firms for supporting online legal search (of sentences and laws) through keywords. Despite most of the actual applications are utilized by lawyers, some other applications begin to be introduced in the justice system, and regard in particular predictive technologies and business analytics, based on the computation of large amount of data (Big Data). For example, "Compas", a risk assessment tool, is used in the U.S. by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to determine if an offender has a high or low risk of recidivism. The next session of this report briefly introduces some examples of AI applications utilized in the justice context distinguishing between applications utilized by lawyers and AI applications developed for the justice system. It is worth saying that the information provided in this section are manly based on the data provided by the companies developing the systems and not from an empirical analysis of the systems. Following, a section briefly introduces the blockchain technology and its potential application in the justice system. A final section deals with the implications of AI in justice; some of these issues emerged during the discussion of the Towards Cyberjustice Workshop "Current State and Future Prospects for Justice and Legal Technology" (Bologna. 10 - 11 May, 2018).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
