Judging AI: What it can do for the courts; and what it can’t

Judges are using artificial intelligence to improve their judgments, a senior member of the judiciary disclosed on 22nd April. 

Sir Colin Birss, who as chancellor of the High Court is the senior chancery judge and has day-to-day responsibility for the business and property courts, described four ways in which judges were now using AI. 

Outlining these advantages in a lecture to the City of London Law Society, Birss stressed that judges must not use public AI systems unless these are known to be secure. But all judges in England and Wales already have access to a secure version of the Microsoft Copilot.