A large-scale field trial on the integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into the country’s justice system found that the use of AI resulted in an additional 1,848 cases being resolved per year, an increase of more than six per cent over the average, it emerged on Friday.
“This increase does not appear to come at the expense of reduced quality,” observed a research paper on the rollout of a generative AI assistant in Pakistan’s trial courts, titled “Courts of Tomorrow: Evidence from a Nationwide Rollout of Generative AI”, that was published on Tuesday.
The authors of the paper, researchers Sultan Mehmood, Christoph Goessmann and Elliott Ash, said that the custom assistant — named JudgeGPT — was a chatbot based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 family of models. It was customised for the Pakistani context and beta-tested “intensively” with Federal Judicial Academy before being deployed for use by 1,559 judges serving across 118 courts.
According to the findings, it was most effectively implemented when paired with targeted training for judges on the use of the tool. The trial found that introducing the assistant alongside targeted training corresponded to an additional 1,848 cases being resolved per year, a 6.3pc increase over the mean.
