In Estonia was show the robot judge considering claims up to 7000 euros

At the end of March, 2019 it became known of creation in Estonia of the robot judge who will investigate small affairs, having lowered load of government and having reduced bureaucracy in judicial body.

The artificial intelligence will consider claims in which a claim for the amounts to 7 thousand euros is made. Both parties of the conflict will load documents and other data which will help the computer to make the weighed decision into service. The rendered verdict will be checked by the person until the machine does not prove the efficiency.

Start of the robot judge will take place later in 2019. At the first stage he will be engaged in analysis of the affairs connected with disagreements in contracts. It is supposed that  during tests work of an algorithm will be estimated by professional lawyers and  judges. 

Estonia on the basis of AI creates "judge robot" who would be engaged in consideration of small disputes

The idea with creation of the electronic judge can quite be successful in Estonia — the country where about 1.5 million locals by the end of March, 2019 actively use the national ID card and also long ago got used to different Internet services — for example, to online vote  or electronic submission of the tax declaration.

The virtual judge will reduce the volume of routine tasks and will help experienced lawyers to be engaged in more complex and profitable affairs. Service will be improved on the basis of responses of lawyers and judges.

The executive director according to Estonia Ott Velsberg (Ott Velsberg) by request of the Ministry of Justice is engaged in the project. In 2018 the government invited the 28-year-old IT specialist for development of electronic state services using artificial intelligence and machine learning.

For judges not only Estonia is engaged in creation of robots assistants. Earlier London university college   (University College London)  and the University of Sheffield developed a computer system which, according to creators, is capable to predict the result of judicial proceedings when the speech about infringement of human rights, with a 79 percent accuracy.^[1]

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