Computer scientists have created an AI program capable of predicting the outcome of human rights trials.
The program was trained on data from nearly 600 cases brought before the European Court of Human Rights and was able to predict the court's final judgement with 79 percent accuracy.
Its creators say it could be useful in identifying common patterns in court cases, but stress that they do not believe AI will be able to replace human judgement.
"I don’t see that we're ready or near to ready to creating AI judges and lawyers," Dr. Nikolaos Aletras, the scientist who led the research, told The Verge. "Although courts do already use a lot of computer analytic tools, and I think that in the future, AI could be useful for this too."
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