The international conference “Artificial Intelligence and Technology in the Courts”, held on October 22, 2024 remotely on the ZOOM platform, was attended by experts and academics from various fields, as well as representatives of the judiciary, judges and prosecutors from Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific.
The conference was opened by the organizers and project “Artificial Intelligence in Courts: Challenges and Opportunities” (TeismAI) researchers Dr Monika Žalnieriūtė and Dr Agnė Limantė, who highlighted the relevance and importance of the topic for the contemporary legal environment. In her welcoming remarks, the President of the Supreme Court of Lithuania, Dr Danguolė Bublienė, emphasized that although the application of artificial intelligence in the legal sphere was perceived as a futuristic prospect until recently, it has now become a reality.
During the first panel, the speakers gave presentations on the relationship between artificial intelligence and judicial values. The discussion was moderated by Monika Šukytė, a doctoral student at Vilnius University Faculty of Law and the Law Institute. The second session of the event, which started with the presentation by project leader Dr Monika Žalnieriūtė on the transparency of judicial activity in the context of artificial intelligence, was devoted to the analysis of the issues of compatibility between legal values and AI tools. The speakers of the third panel “Jurisdictional Perspectives” discussed the approach of national courts to the use of artificial intelligence in practice, sharing experiences from Belgium, the Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, Nigeria and South Africa, while the cases of the Lithuanian and Polish judicial systems were presented by Dr Agnė Limantė. In the last panels of the conference, researchers assessed the application of AI tools in the judiciary in the context of different legal traditions and presented practical examples of application in the represented countries.
Thanks to the organisers, speakers and more than 200 active participants, the conference provided a unique platform not only for discussing the new opportunities created by AI in the courts, but also for rethinking the challenges posed by AI to legal regulation and ethics.
This international conference is part of the project “Artificial Intelligence in Courts: Challenges and Opportunities” (TeismAI), funded by the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT), agreement No. S-MIP-23-73.
