AI ‘judge’ predicts correct outcome in majority of human rights cases

A robotic judge has been developed by scientists at University College London and the University of Sheffield and Pennsylvania which has correctly predicted the outcomes of hundreds of cases heard at the European Court of Human Rights.
The software can weigh up legal evidence and moral questions of right and wrong to accurately predict the result in hundreds of real life court cases. According to researchers, the AI predicted the verdicts to an accuracy of 79% by looking for patterns in the text