Artificial intelligence is increasingly influencing the criminal justice system, its incorporation into this field holds the potential to significantly enhance the efficiency of the judicial system by offering a set of various and advanced tools, that helps police forces and relevant authorities to accelerate searching and investigation processes, alleviates repetitive tasks, enables rapid analysis of criminal evidence, and supports judges in their decision-making processes. Impacting areas from crime prediction to evidence analysis, with the potential to improve efficiency and accuracy, AI raises concerns regarding ethics, potential algorithmic bias, protection of personal data, discriminatory practices and transparency. Overall, these concerns make AI a genuine societal issue, impacting the judicial system prompting critical reflection on the preservation of procedural guarantees that are fundamental to fair and equitable justice.
To ensure that AI enhances and modernizes the judicial system, it is crucial to continuously eval-uate and adapt these systems, ensuring that their development remains aligned with human rights standards and the effectiveness of existing regulations.