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Tuesday, 17 December 2019

AI come to judgement ? Not for a while !





CJI Bobdeji says :




Extract :

Referring to the cautionary words in the speech by former CJI R M Lodha, who presided over the function, on use of AI, Justice Bobde said,


“I wish to point out that it is not an attempt to introduce AI in the decision-making process itself.

The system we are looking at has the ability to read 10 lakh words per second, which means you can make it read anything and ask it any question and it will give you the answer.

The Ayodhya case had thousands of pages of documents and it becomes very easy when you have AI.

There is no thought of substituting decision-making by human minds with computers…”



Earlier, Justice Lodha had said,


“Justice Bobde has expressed his view to focus on use of AI in the judicial decision-making process.

The idea… may help significantly in discharge of cases, but such use of technological innovations may have potential negative implications.

The helpful use may become harmful. It may spread mass surveillance and assist spread of disinformation…”


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I am glad that the Hon Judges have anticipated the use of AI in speeding up the judicial processes


They, even seem to recognize AI’s inevitable influence on the thinking of the judges


I urge Hon Bobdeji to keep an open mind as far as the role that AI can be asked to play, to speed up our judicial processes , considering that the Indian courts have, as many as 35 million pending court cases – many pending for decades !



Hon Bobdeji said :


“ Nobody can have grievances in anybody making a lot of money. But it blocks access to justice “


 Question :

How can justice get “unblocked “ ?


Here is how :

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Artificial intelligence ' Judge ' developed by UCL computer scientists


( SOURCE :


·         Artificial intelligence software that can find patterns in highly complex decisions is being used to predict our taste in films, TV shows and music with ever-increasing accuracy. And now, after a breakthrough study by a group of British scientists, it could be used to predict the outcome of trials.


·         Software that is able to weigh up legal evidence and moral questions of right and wrong has been devised by computer scientists at University College London, and used to accurately predict the result in hundreds of real life cases.



·         The AI “judge” has reached the same verdicts as judges at the European court of human rights in almost four in five cases involving torture, degrading treatment and  privacy.


·         The algorithm examined English language data sets for 584 cases relating to torture and degrading treatment, fair trials and privacy.


In each case, the software analysed the information and made its own judicial decision.


In 79% of those assessed, the AI verdict was the same as the one delivered by the court.


·         Dr Nikolaos Aletras, the lead researcher from UCL’s department of computer science, said :


     We don’t see AI replacing judges or lawyers, but we think they’d find it useful for rapidly identifying patterns in cases that lead to certain outcomes.


·         “It could also be a valuable tool for highlighting which cases are most likely to be violations of the European convention on human rights.” An equal number of “violation” and “non-violation” cases were chosen for the study.


·         In the course of developing the programme the team found that judgments of the European court of human rights depends more on non-legal facts than purely legal arguments.


·         This suggests that the court’s judges are more legal theory “realists” than “formalists”.


·         The same is true of other high level courts, such as the US supreme court, according to previous studies.


·         The most reliable factors for predicting European court of human rights decisions were found to be the language used as well as the topics and circumstances mentioned in the case texts.


One of these days , expect some Indian Start-up in the LEGAL DOMAIN to upload all the past Orders / Judgements of Hon Judges ( of 9 member bench ) into this algorithm


They may want to first look up :







Dear Shri RaviShankar Prasadji,



No doubt, you would be the first one to say : Justice delayed is justice denied



I urge you to “digitize “ our judicial processes to bring quick justice to our citizens , by introducing DIGITAL COURTS as explained in :


Congratulations, Hon CJI , Shri S A Bobdeji


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17  Dec  2019


hcp@RecruitGuru.com


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