Here There Be Dragons: The Likely Interaction of Judges with the Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem

[...]other than natural language processing, true AI is still in its early stages and far less common than advertising would suggest. [...]not only is AI decision-making not transparent, but it may be impossible to determine how an algorithm reached a given conclusion. 5 In August 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office requested public comments on matters related to AI invention, and a test case is now pending in multiple national patent offices.6 Most cases that will arise in the near term likely will be ones with classic issues, complicated by the nature of AI and its ecosystem. In the area of criminal law, the National Institute of Justice has announced that it views the primary criminal law applications to be "public safety video and image analysis, DNA analysis, gunshot detection, and crime forecasting.