{"id":142386,"date":"2022-07-17T08:23:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/chinese-courts-allow-ai-to-overrule-judges-and-draft-new-laws"},"modified":"2022-07-17T08:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T13:23:23","slug":"chinese-courts-allow-ai-to-overrule-judges-and-draft-new-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/chinese-courts-allow-ai-to-overrule-judges-and-draft-new-laws","title":{"rendered":"Chinese courts allow AI to overrule judges and draft new laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-courts-allow-ai-to-overrule-judges-and-draft-new-laws.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Judges must now consult the AI on every case by law, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/beijing\/index.html\" id=\"mol-be07f360-02bd-11ed-9e3b-5d421bfed5f5\">Beijing<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/us-supreme-court\/index.html\" id=\"mol-be0645b0-02bd-11ed-9e3b-5d421bfed5f5\">Supreme Court<\/a> said in an update on the system published this week, and if they go against its recommendation they must submit a written explanation for why.<\/p>\n<p>The AI has also been connected to police databases and China\u2019s Orwellian social credit system, handing it the power to punish people \u2014 for example by automatically putting a thief\u2019s property up for sale online.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has hailed the new technology for making \u2018a significant contribution to the judicial advancement of human civilisation\u2019 \u2014 while critics say it risks creating a world in which man is ruled by machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges must now consult the AI on every case by law, Beijing\u2019s Supreme Court said in an update on the system published this week, and if they go against its recommendation they must submit a written explanation for why. The AI has also been connected to police databases and China\u2019s Orwellian social credit system, handing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}