The Rule of Law or the Rule of Robots? Nationally Representative Survey Evidence from Kenya
27 Pages Posted: 21 Jun 2024
Date Written: June 14, 2024
Abstract
With AI now passing the bar, and with court caseloads worldwide hampering access to justice, there are calls for judges to make use of chatbots to help expedite their work of legal interpretation. Such calls pose an empirical question of the practical difference such a reform might be expected to make. They also pose a normative question: whether judicial reliance on
Keywords: AI, Legal Reasoning, Experimental Jurisprudence, LLM, Rule of Law, Robot Judges
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Flanagan, Brian and Almeida, Guilherme and Chen, Daniel and Gitahi, Angela, The Rule of Law or the Rule of Robots? Nationally Representative Survey Evidence from Kenya (June 14, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4865782 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4865782
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