{"id":90394,"date":"2019-05-07T13:43:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/estonia-is-building-a-robot-judge-to-help-clear-legal-backlog"},"modified":"2019-05-07T13:43:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:43:12","slug":"estonia-is-building-a-robot-judge-to-help-clear-legal-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/estonia-is-building-a-robot-judge-to-help-clear-legal-backlog","title":{"rendered":"Estonia is Building a \u201cRobot Judge\u201d to Help Clear Legal Backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/estonia-is-building-a-robot-judge-to-help-clear-legal-backlog2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Estonian Ministry of Justice has officially asked Ott Velsberg, the country\u2019s chief data officer, to design a \u201crobot judge\u201d to take care of a backlog of small claims court disputes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/can-ai-be-fair-judge-court-estonia-thinks-so\/\"><em>Wired<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The artificial intelligence-powered \u201cjudge\u201d is supposed to analyze legal documents and other relevant information and come to a decision. Though a human judge will have an opportunity to revise those decisions, the project is a striking example of justice by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/estonia-robot-judge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Estonian Ministry of Justice has officially asked Ott Velsberg, the country\u2019s chief data officer, to design a \u201crobot judge\u201d to take care of a backlog of small claims court disputes, Wired reports. The artificial intelligence-powered \u201cjudge\u201d is supposed to analyze legal documents and other relevant information and come to a decision. Though a human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90394","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\/90394","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}