Judge's e-assistant in common courts

• Author: Katarzyna Jasinska
• Pages: 77-90

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Judge’s e-assistant in common courts

Katarzyna Jasiska1

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University

1. INTRODUCTION

The name “judge’s e-assistant” is a simplified, or even colloquial phrase

which stands for the so-called artificial intelligence, playing an auxiliary role in

the judiciary. According to the PWN Encyclopedia, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

is a branch of science which studies mechanisms of human intelligence as well

as modelling and constructing systems which are able to support or replace

intelligent human activities2. The term “artificial intelligence” was coined by

John McCarthy in 1956. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein defined this

term as a system’s ability to correctly interpret external data, to learn from such

data, and to use those learnings to achieve specific goals and tasks through

flexible adaptation3.

Using AI in the judiciary is already a fact. However, as it was aptly pointed out

in the “White Paper On Artificial Intelligence – A European approach to excellence

and trust” drawn up by the European Commission this year, the judiciary is an area

1 PhD; Assistant Professor at Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University; attorney-at-law;

ORCID: 0000-0002-1746-1095.

2 https://encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/sztuczna-inteligencja;3983490.html, access: September

20, 2020.

3 KAPLAN, A., Haenlein M., “Siri, Siri in my Hand, who’s the Fairest in the Land? On the

Interpretations, Illustrations and Implications of Artificial Intelligence”, Business Horizons, 62(1), pp.

15-25.