9th Circ. Judge Doubts AI 'Robot Judges' Can Replace Jurists

By Dorothy Atkins ( October 18, 2024, 9:48 PM EDT) -- Ninth Circuit Judge William Fletcher expressed skepticism Friday that artificially intelligent "robot judges" should replace jurists, saying during a conference on complex litigation ethics that judges understand how to creatively apply the law to best serve justice, and "I don't trust the AI system to break the law when it should."...

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