CHAT China unveils digital courts with AI judges and verdicts via apps

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China unveils digital courts with AI judges and verdicts via apps
Posted by Julie Celestial
December 25, 2019

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China has developed mobile courts with artificial-intelligence judges and verdicts delivered through chat apps aiming to deal with backlogs in cases. Litigants appear by video chats as AI judge with avatar hears the cases.

The country is urging digitization to streamline case-handling within its court system using cyberspace technologies such as blockchain and cloud computing, according to the Supreme People's Court in a policy paper.

The paper was released in the first week of December as judicial authorities provided journalists a sneak peek of the country's first cyber court which was established in 2017 in Hangzhou city.

Social media platform WeChat has reportedly handled over three million legal cases already or other judicial procedures since its launch in March.

In a demonstration, authorities presented how the Hangzhou Internet Court works, featuring an online interface with the AI judge that prompts the hearing.

Cases handled in the digital court include online trade disputes, copyright cases, and e-commerce product liability claims.

Litigants can register civil complaints online and log on for hearing.

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Welcome to the future of the judicial system in China.

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Such simple functions can help ease the burden on human justices who monitor proceedings and make the significant rulings in each case.

Concluding cases "at a faster speed is a kind of justice because justice delayed is justice denied," Hangzhou Internet Court Vice President Ni Defeng said.

The use of blockchain technology was useful in helping to streamline and create clearer records of the legal process, Ni added.

A total of 118 764 cases have been accepted, and 88 401 were concluded, according to the Supreme People's Court. The mobile court option on WeChat enables users to complete case-related actions, without having to appear in the court physically.

It has been launched in 12 provinces and regions.

China unveils digital courts with AI judges and verdicts via apps

China has developed mobile courts with artificial-intelligence judges and verdicts delivered through chat apps aiming to deal with backlogs in cases. Litigants appear by video chats as AI judge with…

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[mzkitty]

No criminal cases, eh? Yet.

Can an AI sentence you to death?


Cases handled in the digital court include online trade disputes, copyright cases, and e-commerce product liability claims.

Litigants can register civil complaints online and log on for hearing.

 

[FaithfulSkeptic]

A LOT of democrats on capitol hill would be in trouble if an algorithm following the letter of the law were to hand down judgement on them.

 

[Fake Shemp]

I didn’t know China had a court system. I thought the government automatically found you guilty and then executed you on the spot.

 

[Knoxville's Joker]

I didn’t know China had a court system. I thought the government automatically found you guilty and then executed you on the spot.

They had to adopt a hybridized capitalist communism to join the international trade community. This is part of it, but the other part is that their economy is so huge that the sheer number of cases is mind boggling.

 

[Dozdoats]

And, ummmmm, honesty is seldom a fundamental concept in Chinese society.

 

[Knoxville's Joker]

And, ummmmm, honesty is seldom a fundamental concept in Chinese society.

Honesty is not how I would state it. More like a ruthless approach regarding output, throwing ethics out the window giving the appearance of dishonesty. I think part of this is actually due to the way the Chinese government has a hand in running things and I often wonder if China switched to a true democratic republic, if some of this might get sorted and run towards more of an ethical business model across the board.

 

[Squid]

They have mostly electronic currency with most transactions handled via phones that run through government monitored ‘private’ companies. If you get ‘ticket’ from some violation caught by the huge ai face recognition camera system your fine is immediately deducted from your account.

Guess move move social credit system, snall violation fine system into the full blown legal system was inevitable.

And you Progressive-liberal Demo’s want a similar system here????

 

[Dozdoats]

FIL was a missionary in China when Mao came to power. He had lots of stories about his year as a Chinese prisoner - and he spoke passable Mandarin.

 

[PanBear]

They have mostly electronic currency with most transactions handled via phones that run through government monitored ‘private’ companies. If you get ‘ticket’ from some violation caught by the huge ai face recognition camera system your fine is immediately deducted from your account.

Guess move move social credit system, snall violation fine system into the full blown legal system was inevitable.

And you Progressive-liberal Demo’s want a similar system here????

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