A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
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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DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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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