Supreme Court senior associate justice Marvic Leonen told court personnel that artificial intelligence may be used to assist judicial work, but must never be allowed to decide cases, as he defended the SC’s new governance framework for AI in the judiciary.
SC senior associate justice Marvic Leonen warned against “cognitive offloading,” or excessive reliance on AI systems that could weaken critical thinking and empathy among judges.
SC chief justice Alexander G. Gesmundo emphasized the transformative role of technology, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), in reshaping the judicial landscape.
The Supreme Court has begun embarking on the use of AI and is in the process of developing tools to aid the work of court personnel such as voice-to-text transcriptions while the testimony is ongoing and transcription of testimonies in certain dialects.
