China creates 'AI prosecutor' to identify crimes with 97% accuracy: Report

In a futuristic technological breakthrough, researchers in China have created an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can identify crimes with an accuracy of more than 97% and n file charges against criminals. AI technology, which runs on a standard desktop PC, was developed by China’s largest district public prosecution office named Shanghai Pudong People’s Procuratorate, Chinese news agency South China Morning Post reports. “ system can replace prosecutors in decision-making process to a certain extent,” researcher Shi Yong said in a paper published in Management Review obtained by  SCMP. Director of Big Data and Knowledge Management Institute at Chinese Acemy of Sciences, Professor Shi Yong, principal investigator of AI prosecutor's development project reportedly said: "This technology reduces worklo of prosecutors and focuses on more difficult tasks." 

An AI-driven machine was manufactured from alrey existing AI tool known as System 206. Chinese prosecutors were using technology to assess evidence and documents and determine wher or not a suspected criminal was dangerous to public and were accordingly deciding verdicts. This task will now be undertaken by ‘AI prosecutor’ that will work on cases ranging from credit card fraud, dangerous driving, ft, and fraud, as well as "picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” It will n analyze human-me case descriptions at lengths to accordingly press criminal charges on suspects or accused. 

AI 'cannot replace humans in decision making': Critics 

According to newspaper SCMP, China’s AI prosecutor was trained from a database of at least 17,000 criminal and or cases in Shanghai dating between 2015 to 2020. technology will soon become capable of charging less common crimes, as well as acquire expertise of charging a single suspect with more than one crime at same time, researchers told SCMP. 

" accuracy of 97% may be high from a technological point of view, but re will always be a chance of a mistake," meanwhile anor unnamed Chinese prosecutor told paper, stressing that technology always comes with a loophole.

"Who will take responsibility when it [an error] happens? prosecutor, machine, or designer of algorithm?” he asked. "AI may help detect a mistake, but it cannot replace humans in making a decision," prosecutor furr asserted. Several Chinese prosecutors have alrey been using so-called 206 system and machine learning to study evidence and transcribe court testimony, sources told Chinese paper. China also employs AI to monitor and surveil government employees' activities in order to detect scandals and state-based corruption. 

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