We always knew it would happen sooner or later. I just don't think we expected it to happen to perhaps the most venerable legal system in the world:
England's 1,000-year-old legal system — still steeped in traditions that include wearing wigs and robes — has taken a cautious step into the future by giving judges permission to use artificial intelligence to help produce rulings.
Here the robots are thinking they're going to have to wage a nuclear war or something to get us to submit, and now they're finding out we're just walking into it.
The AI when someone is brought before a wigged judge because the perp used an improper personal pronoun:
It's worth noting that Britain already has a massive surveillance system that it uses to track all of its citizens in real-time.
The country's Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, somewhat understanding the Brave New World it is about to step into, said that artificial intelligence "could help write opinions," but the regulators said the technology "shouldn't be used for research or legal analyses" because AI can still "fabricate information and provide misleading, inaccurate and biased information."
It feels like a bot could just as easily fabricate something in an opinion as it could research. I suppose the tribunals have thought this through. Maybe.
Master of the Rolls Geoffrey Vos (how's THAT for an English title and name?) said that judges can use AI but they "must ensure that they protect confidence and take full personal responsibility for everything they produce."
Imagine it: An AI watches you leave your home, flags police when it sees you praying quietly a hundred feet outside an abortion clinic, then writes an opinion on your jail sentence!
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