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Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can accurately predict the outcomes of human right trials in major international courts — an advance that could be a valuable tool to identify violation of rights.
Using the AI method, judicial decisions of cases at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) have been predicted to 79 per cent accuracy.
The method is the first to predict the outcomes of a major international court by automatically analysing case text using a machine learning algorithm.
“We don’t see AI replacing judges or lawyers, but we think they’d find it useful for rapidly identifying patterns in cases that lead to certain outcomes,” said Nikolaos Aletras, lead researcher from University College London.
“It could also be a valuable tool for highlighting which cases are most likely to be violations of the European Convention on Human Rights,” said Aletras.
The study was published in PeerJ Computer Science.
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