Project description
Shaping the future of AI in the courts
The use of AI in judicial decision-making raises concerns about transparency, accountability, and fairness. While AI tools promise efficiency, their widespread adoption (potentially even replacing judges) poses risks to core judicial values. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the AI-COURTS project will examine the impact of AI on courts and develop a framework to mitigate emerging harms. Using interdisciplinary research, expert interviews, and comparative analysis across the EU, UK, and US, the project aims to shape public law governance of AI in courtrooms. By contributing to the EU AI strategy and UN Sustainable Development Goals, AI-COURTS will ensure that AI serves justice while safeguarding judicial integrity and equality before the law.
Objective
While predictive and generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies promise to increase efficiency and accuracy in judicial decision-making, few have holistically questioned their impact on the judiciary and justice system. Widespread adoption of AI tools to assist - or even replace - judges, poses significant challenges to the values of open justice, transparency, accountability, and equality before the law. This project aims to expand the knowledge of judicial use of AI tools and their interaction with core judicial values in the EU; provide a new framework for tackling novel emerging harms from the use of AI technologies in courts, and extend EUs legal capacity in empirical mixed methods research. Drawing on interdisciplinary theories of judicial decision-making and critical AI studies, mixed method design and comparative EU, UK and US experiences, the project combines comparative doctrinal analysis with expert interviews with judges, lawyers, policy-makers. Project impact will be secured via academic publications, conference presentations, public communication via social and traditional media, expert workshops. Intended outcomes include a normative framework for the future development of public law in EU to govern the use of AI technologies in the courtrooms, thereby placing EU research at the forefront of a novel field of study, contributing to the EU AI strategy and UN SDGs, and promoting EU leadership in a fast-moving area of social and legal change, increasing equality, offering reduced risk and long-term economic and social benefits.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
Belgium
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