The judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
have been predicted with 79 percent accuracy, announced artificial intelligence
researchers at University College London, working together with a team from the universities of Sheffield and Pennsylvania. Nicolas Aletras, the computer
scientist leading the research, reassures people that they "don’t see AI replacing
judges or lawyers." Instead, the project will help the legal community that has grown up
around the Strasbourg court to identify "patterns in cases that lead to certain
outcomes."