Roaring Elephant

A Law&Order themed news episode this week where we look at a collection of articles about the many legal implications that come with the ever increasing usage of machine learning and neural networks in the worlds courts. We start with the first traces of "Minority Report" PreCrime, follow on to privacy rights of convicted people and finish with the realities of A.I. based facial recognition. "We can't risk peoples' lives on automated apps that save money." Driven by a shortage of human resources, machine learning and artificial intelligence are slowly infiltrating the court system. From our doubts about speech-to-text systems causing problem with future decision reversals to our reservation regarding the accuracy of Neural Network "Recommendation systems" playing a role in deciding the measures of penalty for convicted wrong-doers.. We're definitely not convinced that this is the ideal way forward. On the other hand, us humans also do not have a squeaky clean track record when it come