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As ever more automation works its way into our legal system and courts, we must ask what

challenges and advantages AI has injustice, and if AI will come to be our judge and jury.

Welcome back to Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur from the Sci-Fi Sunday here on SFIA, where we take topics common in science fiction and try to look at them through the lens of science.

Our topic today is automated justice, because who wouldn't want their fate decided by

the digital offspring of calculators and spam filters.

We'll look at using computers and AI to help in legal decisions, or even as judges themselves,

and what the misconceptions about them are in science fiction and what some of the pros

and cons are in this approach,

which has many advantages and challenges along with ethical conundrums.

It's not really a debate that we can make a computer able to act as a judge or jury.

After all, we trust them with our playlists, our love lives on dating apps, so why not our

legal disputes? Rather, it's a matter of how much input

humans should have into that process. To do this, we need to first look at two key issues.

First, what is a justice system, and second, how much input should humans have into it.

Needless to say, before we can tackle the question of the role that AI can play in the justice

system, we need to understand a little bit about the justice system and its current challenges.

The justice systems we have are all layered, all talk about the US system, but a layered

court structure is almost universally adopted worldwide.

At the top end, we have the U.S. Supreme Court,

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