Removing the human element out of the equation when it comes to determining verdicts can be argued to sometimes have been beneficial, both to the advantage of serving justice and protecting the innocent from being wrongfully convicted. People say as flawed as the criminal justice system may be, it is as perfect as it ever has been, with constant research done on how to increase accuracy rates in regarding to correctly coming to conclusions. And legal research in itself can be long and tedious work, as hundreds of thousands of laws, regulations and case studies exist internationally. So if artificial intelligence is doing a good job of sorting other forms of data, why should it not be utilized to conduct legal research, and maybe some day even give legal opinions and aid judges, juries and prosecutors in determining legal verdicts? Some say this might come down to how the AI is programmed to calculate and give weight to certain factors more than others, and this can be abused.
Artificial Intelligence in Courtrooms
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