China's smart courts are reportedly applying a diversity of innovative technologies including blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) to determine on millions of legal cases.

On Dec. 5, Mainland china's official Xinhua news agency reported that more than than 3.1 million Chinese litigation activities from March to October of this yr were settled through the blockchain and AI-powered smart internet courts.

Headed towards a hereafter with AI-powered judges

In these "courts of the future" citizens are able to communicate with non-human, virtual, AI-powered judges in front of multiple screens, which negates the demand for them to physically announced in court. The arrangement also creates the possibility for citizens to receive their courtroom decisions by text or through major messaging services.

Afterwards establishing the "world first" smart internet court in the eastern urban center of Hangzhou in 2022, China launched similar operations in the cities of Beijing and Guangzhou. In April, Zhang Wen, president of the Beijing Internet Court, reportedly said that the court employs technologies such as AI and blockchain to return judgment. Zhang said at the fourth dimension:

"In the electric current use of AI as an assistant to make rulings, efficiency is prioritized over accuracy. A human gauge is ultimately responsible for the fair ruling. [...] Just we are heading toward a future when we can see an AI judge sitting at the podium."

According to a written report released by the Supreme People's Court, more than 1 meg citizens are already registered with the smart court system, along with 73,200 lawyers.

Blockchain can legally authenticate evidence

In September of last yr, Communist china's Supreme Court ruled that evidence authenticated with blockchain engineering science is bounden in legal disputes. The Supreme Courtroom alleged that "Internet courts shall recognize digital information that are submitted as evidence if relevant parties collected and stored these information via blockchain with digital signatures, reliable timestamps and hash value verification or via a digital deposition platform, and can bear witness the authenticity of such applied science used."