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id: "aiethics:lecture/judicial-processes-and-governance"
type: "AI Ethics course lecture"
title: "AI’s Interference with the Judicial Process and Governance Approaches to Regulate AI"
url: "https://aiethicscourse.org/lectures/judicial-processes-and-governance"
authors: ["Jane Loo","Willow Wong"]
summary: "This module explores the challenges of predictive algorithms on the criminal justice system and looks at diverse governance approaches to mitigate these challenges."
source: "AI Ethics: Global Perspectives (aiethicscourse.org)"
licence: "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)"
---

# AI’s Interference with the Judicial Process and Governance Approaches to Regulate AI

A lecture of the course [AI Ethics: Global Perspectives](https://aiethicscourse.org/).

## Lecturers

- Jane Loo, Senior Research Associate and Adjunct Faculty, Singapore Management University
- Willow Wong, Research Associate, Centre for AI and Data Governance, Singapore Management University

## About this lecture

This module contains two parts. The first half of the lecture aims to examine the impact of AI on the judicial process and on an accused’s due process rights. Specifically, it will look at how predictive algorithms are used in the criminal justice system and debate whether the use of such algorithms improve or worsen the fairness of the criminal process. In the second half of the lecture, a cross-cultural examination is conducted to see how AI governance initiatives in Europe and China seek to regulate the complex challenges posed by AI technologies.

## Video and transcript

- Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqT48j-47Bw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqT48j-47Bw)
- Transcript (PDF): [https://aiethicscourse.org/img/515026f9-10f8-48e1-ab4a-0e0f773e7d0d.pdf](https://aiethicscourse.org/img/515026f9-10f8-48e1-ab4a-0e0f773e7d0d.pdf)

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