Artificial intelligence and judicial decisions: the case of ELIS at the Court of Justice of Pernambuco

Abstract

Artificial intelligence algorithms (AIA) have been dedicated to various applications. In the world of law there are AIA dedicated to legal decision-making. In Brazil, in 2022, of the 92 Courts, 87 have application and implementation of EIA to assist the provision of judicial service. This research was guided by observing how AIA are influencing the daily practice of law, for which we collected data on the ELIS, AIA applied in the Rod of Municipal Tax Executives of Recife, of the Court of Justice of Pernambuco. The corpora of the research were videos, conferences, texts available on the internet, in addition to non-participatory observation in visits to the aforementioned Judicial Court and the Ideia Laboratory and conversations with judiciary technicians and magistrates who deal with ELIS. Data were analyzed from systems theory. Among the observations, we identified alarmist futurists and enthusiasts ranging from predictions of the end of the judiciary and legal professions to predictions that we will have a more civil law, because with less influence from informal networks of corruption, therefore, a fairer law. In practice, ELIS relies on automation algorithms and artificial intelligence algorithms.