14/01/2024
🌐 Breaking News: Interview with President of the Warsaw International Arbitration Court, His Honor Judge Alex Szydlowski 🌐
Journalist: Your Honor Mr. Szydlowski, tell us about the implementation of artificial intelligence algorithms in the legal proceedings and the functioning of the AI-judge named Otniel (AI-arbitrator-assistant). Alex Szydlowski: Thank you for the question. Indeed, the integration of artificial intelligence into the judicial system is a crucial milestone in the development of justice and humanity as a whole. Otniel is an AI-Arbitrator-Assistant — an artificial intelligence that we are testing and plan to launch soon to handle routine arbitration cases.
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Journalist: What challenges have been identified in using artificial intelligence in decision-making? Alex Szydlowski: We face several challenges. Firstly, the AI-judge is forced to consider at least four legal sources when making arbitration decisions: natural law, written norms of positive law, business customs, and previously rendered court decisions. The lack of internal conviction inherent in a human judge requires us to assign "weights" to each source, which proves to be a rather complex task.
Journalist: That is indeed very interesting, but how does the AI-judge analyze previous judicial precedents? Alex Szydlowski: The analysis of previous decisions by arbitration and state courts by AI-judges currently indicates the need to overturn and review over 95% of already rendered decisions. This is because artificial intelligence does not always manage to reconcile various subjective approaches to legal application, leading to discrepancies in judicial practice.
Journalist: How do you envision the future qualifications of human judges in light of the implementation of artificial intelligence? Alex Szydlowski: The complexity I see already now is that in a couple of decades, it will be challenging to select qualified judges for appellate and cassation instances due to the imminent disappearance of a qualified judicial community. The presidiums of the courts, which will consider appeals against decisions of AI-judges, will become a key element in this process, but their impending disqualification is evident. Today, there is a vast community of hundreds and thousands of judges for appointing judges to higher judicial instances; in the future, this source will dry up, inevitably affecting the overall quality of decisions.
Journalist: What are the prospects for implementing artificial intelligence in legal proceedings? Alex Szydlowski: Despite the challenges, the integration of AI-judges into arbitration proceedings brings positive aspects. Artificial intelligence is free from bribery and bias, which is a positive aspect. However, the decisions of AI-judges remain probabilistic, based on an element of faith. The AI judge is cool-headed and objective by nature, but only if people do not interfere with its work; such a judge is fair, independent, and impartial. It does not experience family dramas, illnesses, or bad moods. Its daunting objectivity is both an advantage and a weak point. Before AI-judges are introduced into national legal proceedings, I believe there will be a real war between people and their groups for the right to assign the "weights" of each legal source I mentioned above. And this greatly concerns me.
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