Comments on: Government embraces AI in bid to speed up justice https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/government-turns-to-ai-to-speed-up-justice/ Legal news, insider insight and careers advice Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: 🎶We are the robots… do..duh..de..doo! 🎶 https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/government-turns-to-ai-to-speed-up-justice/#comment-1226585 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:09:47 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223133#comment-1226585 The computer had judged you… Guilty.

Your life will now be terminated…

You may feel a slight tingling sensation…

]]> By: Andrew https://www.legalcheek.com/2025/08/government-turns-to-ai-to-speed-up-justice/#comment-1226551 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:43:23 +0000 https://www.legalcheek.com/?p=223133#comment-1226551 Faster and more efficient perhaps – particularly for relatively simple repetitive tasks such as reviewing documents, administrative functions, and paperwork – but can we really expect AI-enhanced “predictive risk” models to be fairer? There are plenty of examples of unthinking implementations of decision-making algorithms reinforcing racial, gender and other biases. So good luck with the “rigorous testing” and “robust ethical oversight”.

Perhaps we should address the continuing scandal of indefinite imprisonment for public protection (abolished for over a decade, yet some people remain in prison after convictions for minor offences) before we embark on an ambitious new project to automate the justice system through reliance on black boxes that are liable to replicate flawed training data or hallucinate. Computer says guilty?

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