China Develops AI Prosecutor That Can Judge People’s Guilt With 97% Accuracy

China has developed an artificial intelligence that can reportedly identify crimes and file charges against criminals with more than 97 per cent accuracy.

The AI was developed and tested by the Shanghai Pudong People’s Procuratorate and it has been trained to identify Shanghai’s eight most common crimes.

It was developed by a team led by Professor Shi Yong, director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ big data and knowledge management laboratory.

As reported by the South China Morning Post, the AI cannot ‘participate in the decision-making process of filing charges and suggesting sentences’, but is already being used to help assess evidence and determine whether criminals are dangerous to the public.

It files charges using a description of a suspected criminal case and the researchers believe it can ‘replace prosectors in the decision-making process to a certain extent’.

The tool was built using an existing AI called System 206 and, without being able to identify and remove irrelevant information in a case, or process human language, it won’t be able to make sentencing decisions or file charges without human intervention.

But, it can identify and charge criminals in credit card fraud, gambling, reckless driving, international assault, theft, fraud, obstructing an officer and, most worryingly, political dissent.

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