Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
Artificial justice
ANSELM ELDERGILL asks whether artificial intelligence may decide legal cases in the future, in place of human judges, and how AI could reshape the legal landscape
MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS: AI Truth Machine / LIT Law Lab, Johannes Kepler University (AT)
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As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
Eighty-one years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the threat of far-right extremism is resurging – the lessons of history demand unity, organisation and resistance, argues SABBY DHALU
On Holocaust Memorial Day STEVE SILVER warns that the ‘double genocide’ theory and modern ‘revisionism’ are not just historical errors, but calculated tools for rehabilitating fascist ideology
On May 16 1944, Romani families in Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with stones, tools, and sheer collective will, forcing the SS to retreat – leaving a legacy of defiance that speaks directly to the fascisms of today, says VICTORIA HOLMES
OUR courts are in crisis: buildings are crumbling; serious delays are endemic; legal rules are labyrinthine; very few citizens without means are eligible for legal aid; and the judiciary in dress and thought is old-fashioned and hierarchical, its often ill-judged attempts at self-reform and modernity distorted by long-entrenched class privilege.
Is artificial intelligence part of the answer to these and other pressing legal problems or part of a dystopian future?
In Samuel Butler’s 19th century novel Erewhon, the citizens of his imaginary country were concerned that evolution in humans is gradual but in mechanics rapid, concluding that machines would soon surpass and supplant them.
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Mental health fears push Peers to change law on IPP torture sentences, reports Charley Allan
In a legal system that is increasingly removing judicial discretion, the fundamental question remains whether justice requires a compassionate heart or a dispassionate application of Parliament’s will, writes ANSELM ELDERGILL
