Researchers in China have developed a machine which can charge people with crimes by using artificial intelligence. This is world’s first developed.

AI Prosecutor

• The AI prosecutor have the capability to file a charge with more than 97 percent accuracy. It will file a charge on the basis of verbal description of the case.
• It was built and tested by Shanghai Pudong People’s Procuratorate, which is China’s largest and busiest district prosecution office
• It could run on a desktop computer. For each suspect, the prosecutor would press a charge based on 1,000 traits, which are obtained from human-generated case description text.
• In between 2015 to 2020, the machine was “trained” using more than 17,000 cases.

Significance of the technology

The AI prosecutor technology will help in reducing prosecutors’ daily workload and allow them to focus on more difficult tasks. It will replace prosecutors in the decision-making process to some extent.