As a former judge and a current prosecutor, I would say NO. AI is designed to make decisions in the way the programmer see, meaning that the way a machine takes decision is based on the sole descretion of the programmer, you can not rey on that only for decision making when it comes to court rulings.

In addition, in court judgments it is not always 1+1=2, there are a lot of moral and ethical criteria to look into, in order to make a machine do that you have to put a human soul in it in my point of view!

Artificial intelligence algorithms are developed by humans to take intelligent decisions. The more you make your algorithms intelligent by adding more features, the better it is going to perform. So the role of AI can not be ignored it should be analyzed and tested.

Just don't. Current artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms are incapable to make ethical decisions. One of the main obstacles in the use of AI & ML in courts is their lack of transparency. We usually do not know why they decided and how they did it.

This brings an impenetrable obstacle in checking artificially made decisions. We can't split such decisions into simple logical parts and steps.

What I really recommend is to use AI & ML techniques in digging for evidence and feeding flesh & bone judges with relevant input information above which decisions are made. On top of it, law reinforcement parts of the society can use automated algorithms to localize potential frauds, criminal activities, and gain interesting forensic data as such.

Even in the forensic part, AI & ML must be always supervised and checked by humans as it can be misled into missing some important part of the information.

It is easy to imagine AI & ML algorithms as hard-working, tireless, objective assistants of all parts of the society that are checking and ensuring the smooth running of the whole society. Nevertheless, it would be really dangerous to give algorithms the power to decide about law, ethics, and medical issues.

Dear Mohammed,

The RL (Reinforcement Learning), a subdomain of ML, is somewhat able to learn and replicate the simplistic ethical judgements. However, it's still need to be properly analysed and investigated for complex ethical decisions.

On the other hand, other sub-domains of ML are well versed only with known output parameters. Therefore, there are chances of complete failure for some cases in court as sometimes they are quite peculiar in nature. In this way, most ML concepts are nowhere going to help in varied decisions of court.

As a former judge and a current prosecutor, I would say NO. AI is designed to make decisions in the way the programmer see, meaning that the way a machine takes decision is based on the sole descretion of the programmer, you can not rey on that only for decision making when it comes to court rulings.

In addition, in court judgments it is not always 1+1=2, there are a lot of moral and ethical criteria to look into, in order to make a machine do that you have to put a human soul in it in my point of view!

Completely agree with Mohamed Hemdani. Ethical issues are next to impossible to program. AI & ML techniques are contrary to believes of many people not intelligent at all. Those techniques are designed in ways, which are capable to classify, distinguish, extrapolate, and otherwise process data in ways that enable generalizations on otherwise impenetrable dependencies among data.

There is no magic called intelligence behind any AI & ML techniques in existence. We are still unable to mathematize thinking as such, sociology, psychology, and ethics beyond some oversimplified cases.

Ethics is a game of contradicting criteria, inputs, and decisions. It is next to impossible to formalize it mathematically. The only perspective way to do it would be complex systems and mathematical apparatus based on self-organization, emergence, and other phenomena observed within them.

I do see at least one way how to go further but it requires a lot of work. It is worth of one Ph.D. study.

As a former Judge, I would say No, if the question is about robot judge and decision maker. However AI may greatly assist to judge in the decision making process, but the final court decision should be taken by the human judge.

I stongly believe that humans must judge about human doings.

Even humans often misunderstand the underlying problems of the case an error in descisions...

In Germany we have developed a system of honorary judges that assist the legal expert which presides over a case: honorary judges shall bring a daily live view and approach to the court in order to make the legally expert main judge to understand the underlying case and problem...

I am serving as honorary judge since 2009. This system is successful and important.

I think machines cannot successfully judge over human doings. I do not want do be judged by mashines...

Can we prevent mashines from being manipulated or defaulting???

It's not acceptable for us as humans let robots based on AI take such as decisions that affect our life because we are dominate this world and mange our ethical affairs and actually it's a complicated issue to understand all circumstances that surround each case hence the court's decision must issued based on conviction rather than algorithmic process

The machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms have widely applied in many applications domains with great successful. It will be interesting to use those capabilities to build smart system that used to assist the judge to make decision. Such system can also help the government to get full dashboard about the type and the quantity, place of cases in the courts.

Using artificial intelligence algorithms can assist the human in decision has been used in smart system, The system use such as classification application to make the final decision.

The decision requires prudence of mind ;a judge as human being has to analyze the facts a well as the body language of the parties of a case to come across the rational decision.So if robots are in the capacity of doing this; the experiment would not be a bad option.on the same time if we have the men power and judicial minds why we should waste time on this instead of implementing IA some where else.

garbage in garbage out

Human interaction in determining case outcomes is still essential to obtain a rational outcome, there is always a risk of biased data fed into the system that could influence the AI decision.

It is fundamental that humans are judged by humans. The use of AI is indiscriminate and lacks the nuance of observation and emotional response. That having been said AI may be a useful aid to humans reaching rational and objective decisions.

Would be very dangerous. It would for example forbid jury nullification.