Mr Ong was speaking to reporters in Hangzhou, China, following the 5th Singapore-China Social Governance Forum on Monday. CNA
This is the most forwarding looking and progressive statement coming from Singapore, using technology to enforce law and security. The benefits of technology, robots and AIs need no further elaboration. These are highly productive machines, cannot be biased, not subjective to human behaviours and interference. Absolutely impartial if programmed to be so. Of course they can be programmed to lie and to cheat and to be biased. But that should not be the case. And machines cannot be corrupt, another strong point.
With the advancement of AI, and the capacity to store unlimited information, law cases, judgements and precedents, no human lawyer can compete with that, machine is the next thing to replace lawyers in litigation. Not only that, machine can also replace the judges in listening to complex cases or sensitive cases. Rapists have no fear of the likes of Justice Choor Singh in the past. The judiciary will be completely free from human bias and differential access. No one can accuse the court of being biased, favouritism.
This is going to be the future of the Judicial System. Why not, when it has all the advantages that humans cannot provide, clean and fair, justice will not only be done, but be seen to be done fairly and justly. No need to know who is your lawyer, who is the judge, who is the other party, no need to fear the rich and powerful. Only bad news, no need law schools, no need lawyers and judges, only administrative staff to make sure the system is switched on and off when needed will do. Oops, more unemployment as jobs are taken over by machine. But no need to pay an arm or a leg to star lawyers. The cost of litigation will be greatly reduced to the price of electricity and machine time.
A judiciary system run by AI machines will be most suitable for countries that want a cold, steely and efficient system that treats its offenders as objects, not human beans. All judgements would be clean and clinical, devoid of human feelings and encumbrances. The social scientists would argue for human judges to temper the harshness. in a sense cruel, and lack of human sensitivities of machines. It can be a terrifying world when AI machines decide the fate of offenders that are warm blooded humans, not senseless objects.
AI machines are productivity, efficiency and neutrality all rolled into one if wisely applied by warm blooded human beans, caring humans with a heart. The future is going to be very bright. And yes, no privacy issues. The machine will not know who is who or want to know who is who, unless they are programmed to do so.
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