Israel is considering establishing an artificial intelligence-based system that would improve the efficiency of courts, Israel Hayom has learned.
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The head of the Israeli court system, Judge Michael Spitzer, discussed the innovative idea meant to expedite legal processes with an American professor specializing in AI last month.
According to Spitzer, the idea is in its infancy and will "in no way be a replacement for judicial discretion."
Spitzer's predecessor, retired Judge Yigal Marzel, warned against incorporating AI in the judicial system back in 2022, saying there needed to be "people, not machines" in courts.
Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler, a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, said in a recent piece that China has already incorporated so-called "smart courts" that use AI to provide judicial services to a large population. If a human judge wishes to rule differently, he or she needs to justify the decision in writing.
In recent years, Estonia also announced plans to use AI for small claims courts, with the possibility to appeal the decision to a human judge.
Israel Hayom has asked ChatGPT whether incorporating AI in courts was a good idea, to which it replied that while artificial intelligence could "provide information and technological support in legal systems, it could not replace actual judges."
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