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Santon Convention Centre where the J20 Summit of the Constitutional Courts and Supreme Courts is being held.
The Deputy Chief Justice Dunstan Mlambo says that the South African Judiciary will not blindly adopt Artificial Intelligence.
He was speaking ahead of the J20 Summit of the Constitutional Courts and Supreme Courts at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg.
The summit forms part of the activities leading up to the 2025 G20 Summit, which South Africa will host in November.
The theme of the J20 is ‘Justice in a Time of Change: Independence, Innovation, and Cooperation.
It gives international judicial bodies an opportunity to exchange ideas on contemporary legal matters.
Mlambo says the country has a lot to learn from other countries attending the meeting.
He says, “AI is seriously beneficial from a research point of view. We hope to harness it in such a way that it relieves judges from doing all the menial paper-based tasks and use AI to deal with it, but they still remain to exercise their discretion in the decisions because we are careful.”
Mlambo adds, “We don’t want people to start thinking that AI is deciding their cases. We remain in control. So, from a research point of view, from a case allocation point of view, from a case management point of view, AI has been shown in other jurisdictions like Kenya, Morocco, and Rwanda that it can be very beneficial and speed up issues.”
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