By Jason Pan / Staff reporterThe Ministry of Justice and the Judicial Yuan yesterday presented assessments on proposed measures and programs for judicial reform, with officials agreeing to look into the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and other new technologies to ameliorate deficiencies in the nation’s judicial system. Legal professionals have started to use AI to assist in their work, Judicial Yuan Secretary-General Lu Tai-lang (呂太郎) said at a meeting in Taipei of the Legislative Yuan’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee. One of the most important initiatives of the past few years was compiling a vast database of criminal cases to establish the Sentencing Guideline Information System, which aids judges when making a ruling, he said. Legal reform groups have also called for human judges to be phased out in favor of an AI-based system, which they said would use big data analysis to provide optimized legal decisions and would be an improvement over the judiciary’s current operations. Hsu called on Minister of Justice Chiu Tai-san (邱太三) to form a task force to investigate applications for AI, big data analytics and other new technologies that could provide supplementary tools to support the judicial system.

Source: Taipei Times March 21, 2018 15:56 UTC