An artificial intelligence “judge” that can accurately predict many of Europe’s top human rights court rulings has been created by a team of computer scientists and legal experts.
The AI system—developed by researchers from University College London, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Pennsylvania—parsed 584 cases which had previously been heard at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), and successfully predicted 79 percent of the decisions.
via Ars Technica
October 24, 2016