PABLO BRAVO-HURTADO, 

PhD Student, Maastricht University (the Netherlands) 

Could we replace judges and put robots in the process of administration of justice, could we use artificial intellect for this purpose? The author makes a try to disperse three incorrect ideas causing skeptical view on the problem. First, artificial intellect could not replace humans even in the case when technologies of artificial intellect in administration of justice will become perfect, vice versa, it will be possible only when work efficiency of technologies become higher than efficiency of people. Second, technologies of artificial intellect on the forecasting of judgments (that are much more developed than it seems at first view) can be used to imitate and also replace the work of judges. And third, the article shows that automation in the process of administration of justice entails not only technological, but also moral and ethical problems. Based on this, the question arises: can the artificial intellect have «consciousness, mind» and whether the replacement of the judges on the artificial intellect leads to the fact that people will not be judged by the jury? 

Keywords: artificial intellect and law; robot judge; e-justice; forecasting judgments; trial jury. 

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Information about the author 

Bravo-Hurtado Pablo (Maastricht, the Netherlands) – PhD Student, Maastricht University (Maastricht University, Faculty of Law, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht; e-mail: [email protected]). 

Recommended citation 

Bravo-Hurtado P. Avtomatizatsiya otpravleniya pravosudiya: obrashchenie k tryom oshibochnym suzhdeniyam ob iskusstvennom intellekte [Automatization of Administration of Justice: Towards Three Incorrect Ideas on Artificial Intellect]. Вестник гражданского процесса = Herald of Civil Procedure, 2018, no. 1, p. 181–199. (In Russian) DOI: 10.24031/2226-0781-2018-8-1-181-199