What's your reaction to the question, "Alexa, is this man guilty?". Most likely, if yours is anything like mine, she will say, "Sorry, I don't know that one," but what if this changes? What if Artificial Intelligence is used to decide whether a person is guilty or not, whether they should be released or kept behind bars for the next half of their life? 

In this episode, I talk about how feasible it is to introduce AI to the legal sector and the ethical and practical implications of this. From efficiency and accuracy to racial and gender bias to whether computers can actually understand humans as well as we can, is a future where robots deliver verdicts in court even possible? Listen now to find out!