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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday August 22 2019, @09:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the here-comes-the-judge dept.

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China Now Has AI-Powered Judges

Beijing is bringing AI judges to court. The move, proclaimed by China as "the first of its kind in the world", comes from the Beijing Internet Court, which has launched an online litigation service center featuring an artificially intelligent female judge, with a body, facial expressions, voice, and actions all modeled off a living, breathing human (one of the court's actual female judges, to be exact).

[...] But conspiracy theorists can breathe a sigh of relief — the AI apocalypse is not nigh (yet). This virtual judge, whose abilities are based on intelligent speech and image synthesizing technologies, is to be used for the completion of “repetitive basic work” only, according to the Beijing Internet Court’s official statement on the move. That means she’ll mostly be dealing with litigation reception and online guidance. Other features of the online service center include a mobile micro-court and an official Weitao (Taobao's social-media service for brands) account.

Rather than replacing human-populated courts, Beijing's Internet Court’s stated mission is to use new technology to provide more effective, more widely-reaching public services. According to court president Zhang Wen, integrating AI and cloud computing with the litigation service system will allow the public to better reap the benefits of technological innovation in China.

For the first time in China, #AI assistive technology was used in a trial at Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court on Wed, the Legal Daily reported. When the judge, public prosecutor or defender asked the AI system, it displayed all related evidence on a courtroom screen. pic.twitter.com/fEI7cR5U3T

— People's Daily, China (@PDChina) January 25, 2019


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:17PM (4 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 22 2019, @02:17PM (#883621) Journal

    While this strips dignity from the process, I'm not sure it alters the outcome. Even in front of a human judge, those three options are your ONLY options. Any attempt at anything other than selecting from those three will not be tolerated by a human judge. In fact it could get you in contempt of court.

    So really your options are:
    [_] Guilty, pay and win points!
    [_] No Contest, pay and go to online traffic school
    [_] Not Guilty, schedule the process to prepare for trial
    [x] Contempt of court

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:04PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:04PM (#883658)

    You can ALWAYS go for contempt of court, the bailiff will happily remand you to a courtroom with a real judge if you've got the attitude for it.

    IMO, the video taped judge did two things: 1) he raised the cost of pleading not guilty to two trips to court, where a single trip to court is already more costly than just paying the fine in most cases..., and 2) he also gave a 100% available (when you've got the video tape judge) option to plead no contest and take traffic school for no points on your license, human judges didn't always give this option - depending on priors, etc., but the video tape judge would allow infinite elections to traffic school. In other words, you still have the option to plead no contest with a human judge, but the human judge has the option to throw you under the jail if he believes you deserve it - so judgy.

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:12PM (2 children)

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:12PM (#883661) Homepage Journal

    In Manitoba I remember one could plead "Guilty with explanation."

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:20PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 22 2019, @03:20PM (#883667) Journal

      Will the explanation result in an increased fine?

      Or lower the fine, but then significantly increase the court costs for having to listen to the explanation.

      I'm not sure what good an explanation would actually do if, in fact, you were speeding and acknowledge that you were speeding.

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      • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Friday August 23 2019, @01:15AM

        by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Friday August 23 2019, @01:15AM (#883882)

        Back in the '70s that was an option here. You went to the scheduling window, plead not guilty with an explanation and got a reduced fine. There was a level, I think 15 over, where a live court appearance was required, but for lesser infractions it was just a way to avoid court and get a reduced fine. It didn't matter what the explanation was, UFO's were chasing me was just as valid as the speed sign was covered in snow and I didn't realize the speed was reduced.
        It didn't prevent points on your license, just reduced the fine from a strait guilty plea and eliminated a court appearance.

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