Chief Justice Roberts: AI Won't Replace Human Judges

"As 2023 draws to a close with breathless predictions about the future of Artificial Intelligence, some may wonder whether judges are about to become obsolete," Roberts wrote in his annual year-end report. "I am sure we are not—but equally confident that technological changes will continue to transform our work."

December 31, 2023 at 06:00 PM

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United States Supreme Court

Jimmy Hoover

The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal

Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. focused his 2023 year-end report on the effect of artificial intelligence on the legal profession, predicting Sunday that it will have a profound impact on the jobs of judges but won't replace the fundamentally human discretion at the heart of the court system.