China develops AI ‘prosecutor’ that can press charges with ‘97% accuracy’

Why in news?

• China has been making rapid advancements in the technology field. And now, Chinese scientists have claimed that they have developed a machine that can charge people with crime using artificial intelligence. This is the world’s first such machine.

About ‘AI prosecutor’ by China

• The artificial intelligence ‘prosecutor’ received training for five years – from 2015 to 2020 – during which it went through 17,000 cases. The Chinese researchers claimed that it was able to identify and press charges for common crimes.
• The AI “prosecutor” can charge people with over 97 per cent accuracy, the researchers further claimed, adding that it works on verbal description.
• The machine was built and tested by the Shanghai Pudong People’s Procuratorate, the country’s largest and busiest district prosecution office.
• It can also identify “dissent” against the state.
• It can press charges based on 1,000 human-generated case description texts.