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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Francis Louie C. Añiga

The AI Judge Is Coming: Top UK Legal Figure Predicts Machines Will Start Deciding Small Court Cases

Geoffrey Vos said that litigants may eventually choose to have cases determined 'in minutes by a machine at little or no cost' (Credit: Private Office, Master of the Rolls/Wikimedia Commons)

Britain's most senior civil judge has warned that millions of small legal disputes could soon be decided by an 'AI judge' in the UK and abroad, predicting that many people will choose machines over humans if it delivers faster, cheaper justice.

In a speech in Sydney, Sir Geoffrey Vos, the Master of the Rolls, set out his clearest vision yet of artificial intelligence moving from backroom legal research to front-line decision-making in civil and commercial cases.

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