AI in Chinese Judiciaries

AI in Chinese Judiciaries

China has mandated comprehensive use of ai in all judicial sectors by 2025

In 2022, the Supreme People's Court, China's top court, issued this mandate. All courts must use AI, but no damaging national security, infringing upon state secrets or violating personal data security and no replacing courts in deciding cases (the AI is just a supplement).

Why?

Sheer volume of legal disputes Shortage of legal professionals: only 1 lawyer per 4500 citizens (compare to 1:300 in US) Legal industry very open to new tech because the industry itself is only 30 years old Public demand for transparency and uniformity

Ways you can currently file a lawsuit in china

On an app

In person

On Mobile Minicourt, a WeChat applet

Yucky (see COVID)

A ROBOT!!!

online

His name is Xiaofa (Little Law)

Three Internet Courts: Beijing, Zhejiang, Guangdong

2,200,000+

Cases handled on the app at the end of 2020

<28 mins

>90%

Average online court dispositive hearing time

Cases in Internet courts solved online

11,430,000+

Cases filed online in 2021 alone

AI Programs in use

Xiao Zhi (Civil)

Xiao Baogong (Criminal)

Full name is Xiao Baogong Intelligent Sentencing Prediction System. Suggests penalties by analyzing case information and prior judgments from similar cases Used as a check on human judges to prevent corruption on sentencing Tool for more uniform sentences throughout China

Mostly handles financial cases Big eyes, cute

Thank you

Sources

https://law.asia/china-embraces-tech-savvy-legal-systems/ https://www.chinajusticeobserver.com/a/china-establishes-three-internet-courts-to-try-internet-related-cases-online https://www.bloomberglaw.com/document/XAHRKMCS000000?jcsearch=gkl45feilmk#jcite https://abovethelaw.com/2023/11/omg-china-has-actual-legal-robots-and-all-the-legal-tech-patents/ https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2019/10/21/where-is-china-heading-with-legal-tech/ https://www.dw.com/en/how-chinas-ai-is-automating-the-legal-system/a-64465988 https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202212/09/WS6392fa3ba31057c47eba3a3f.html https://www.lexisnexis.ca/en-ca/ihc/2020-02/robot-justice-chinas-use-of-internet-courts.page https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171031005431/en/QIHAN’s-Sanbot-Robot-Brings-Litigation-Services-to-Beijing-First-Intermediate-Peoples-Court https://www.chinajusticeobserver.com/a/chinese-courts-on-smart-phones https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202305/25/WS646f5a5fa310b6054fad5204.html https://www.chinajusticeobserver.com/law/x/the-supreme-people-s-court-the-opinions-on-regulating-and-strengthening-the-applications-of-artificial-intelligence-in-the-judicial-field-20221208