ChatGPT introduced in courtrooms

A judge in the county of Columbia, South Carolina, used ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence chatbot system, to assist with a court decision, according to a new report. As far as is known, artificial intelligence is used to decide a case for the first time.

Judge Juan Manuel Padilla Garcia said in a statement, “The purpose of including these AI-generated texts is in no way a substitute for the judge’s decision. What we are really looking for is to optimize the time spent preparing decisions after verifying the information provided by the AI.” According to the information conveyed, ChatGPT has been assisted for the decision rendered in the case, and there is no question of the vehicle making a decision on its own.

ChatGPT used in court decision

The ongoing lawsuit, on the other hand, involves a dispute with a health insurance company over whether an autistic child should be covered for medical treatment. According to the court document, some information was requested from ChatGPT on this subject; “Is an autistic child exempt from paying for their therapy?” and “Did the case law of the Constitutional court rule in favor of similar cases?”

Columbia law does not prohibit the use of artificial intelligence in court decisions. However, it is strange that ChatGPT is used as a decision-making resource, as we know it offers potentially biased or incorrect answers. Even OpenAI, the developer of the tool, states that ChatGPT should not be used for consequential decision making.

On the other hand, we will start to see that artificial intelligence models are used more frequently in order to facilitate the operation and speed up the process before the law. Of course, as these systems become widespread, it is predicted that there will be problems such as biased decision making by artificial intelligence tools. Because all these tools are obtained by synthesizing millions of data on the internet or in books. Therefore, the data used is extremely important. So even without ChatGPT, we are likely to see artificial intelligence tools trained only by official law and law in the future.