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Artificial Intelligence and Law: What Do People Really Want?: Example of a French Multidisciplinary Working Group

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Fabrice Muhlenbach,

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ICAIL '19: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law

Pages 224 - 228

https://doi.org/10.1145/3322640.3326722

Published: 17 June 2019 Publication History

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This paper addresses issues related to the ethical consequences of using AI technologies in court decisions. With the prodigious technological leap made in the field of artificial intelligence in recent years, disruptive innovations have affected many business sectors, with economic, social and ethical consequences.

But what do people really want about the application of artificial intelligence technologies in the law system? This article presents a general methodological approach to take into account the ethical aspect of the introduction of a new technology in a given domain. We apply this methodology in the specific case of the introduction of AI technologies in the law system. As a multidisciplinary working group interested in this application in the case of France, we have organized a series of workshops to discuss this topic and highlight the respective values and interests of each stakeholder. The result of this work in presented in the form of an ethical matrix that can be used as a tool by the public authorities to help decision-making on the subject with a prioritization of certain values in order to reflect the respect for fundamental rights.

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Jacobsen RBysted LJohansen PPapachristos ESkov MBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)Perceived and Measured Task Effectiveness in Human-AI CollaborationExtended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3334480.3383104(1-9)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3383104
Muhlenbach F(2020)A Methodology for Ethics-by-Design AI Systems: Dealing with Human Value Conflicts2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)10.1109/SMC42975.2020.9283185(1310-1315)Online publication date: 11-Oct-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC42975.2020.9283185

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Jacobsen RBysted LJohansen PPapachristos ESkov MBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)Perceived and Measured Task Effectiveness in Human-AI CollaborationExtended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3334480.3383104(1-9)Online publication date: 25-Apr-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3334480.3383104
Muhlenbach F(2020)A Methodology for Ethics-by-Design AI Systems: Dealing with Human Value Conflicts2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)10.1109/SMC42975.2020.9283185(1310-1315)Online publication date: 11-Oct-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/SMC42975.2020.9283185

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