AI & Law: When AI Is Judging Human Judges
By Dr. Lance Eliot
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Key briefing points:
· Trial court cases are routinely appealed and then reviewed by appeals-level judges.
· You rightfully assume that the appeals level judges are humans.
· Some believe that we will inevitably have AI that takes on that role.
· The AI would be allowed to affirm or remand the case.
· Further levels of appeal would consist of human judges (for now).
Section 1: Introduction
Your case didn’t go the way that you had hoped. There seem to be sufficient grounds to launch an appeal. The hope is that an appeals judge will see that the case has a serious defect or legally compelling issue that will turn around the ruling closer in your direction.
Judges at the lower courts are abundantly aware that at some point their judgment is bound to be called into question on appeal.
