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The Rule of Law or the Rule of Robots? Nationally Representative Survey Evidence from Kenya

2024
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  • Usage
    759
    • Abstract Views
      621
    • Downloads
      138
  • Captures
    2
    • Readers
      2
      • SSRN
        2
  • Mentions
    3
    • News Mentions
      3
      • 3
  • Social Media
    21
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      21
      • Facebook
        21
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      425,405

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Kenya Survey: “AI Clerk’s Influence on Legal Outcomes Is Seen as No Less Legitimate” Than Human Clerk’s

From Brian Flanagan, Guilherme Almeida, Daniel Chen & Angela Gitahi, The Rule of Law or the Rule of Robots? Nationally Representative Survey Evidence from Kenya: We explore the legitimacy

Paper Description

With AI now passing the bar, and with increasing court caseloads worldwide hampering access to justice, there are calls for judges to make use of chatbots to help expedite their work.  Such calls pose a normative question: whether our ideal of the rule of law is consistent with judicial reliance on computer generated legal research. In deciding whether artificial intelligence could support the administration of justice in this way, the views of those who stand to gain the most through more readily available dispute resolution will be critical. Collecting nationally representative survey data from Kenya, we report a vignette-based experiment on the acceptability of AI law clerks - assistants whose legal analysis does not decide what the law says but which informs the ultimate decision. We find that an AI’s influence on the law’s application is seen as no less legitimate than that of a human assistant. This result spurs efforts to systematically investigate whether the integration of AI might make justice systems more efficient, accessible, and trustworthy in practice. 

Bibliographic Details

Brian Flanagan; Guilherme Almeida; Daniel Chen; Angela Gitahi

Elsevier BV

AI; Legal Reasoning; Experimental Jurisprudence; LLM; Rule of Law; Robot Judges

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