Artificial intelligence is already helping determine your future – whether it’s your Netflix viewing preferences, your suitability for a mortgage or your compatibility with a prospective employer. But can we agree, at least for now, that having an AI determine your guilt or innocence in a court of law is a step too far?

As the law is considered a human science, it is relevant that the AI tools help judges and legal practitioners rather than replace them.

AI systems can avoid the typical fallacies of human psychology and can be subject to rigorous controls. For some, they might even be more impartial than human judges.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become such a part of our daily lives that it’s hard to avoid – even if we might not recognise it.