Human judges could ‘never’ be replaced by robots

Jon Kiddie

Mr Kiddie, a member of Terra Firma Chambers, writes: “A system of law consisting solely of a body of rules requiring enforcement, regurgitation, cross-analysis, interpretation and application? A computer could probably do that better than a human. In reality, nowadays most lawyers use computers to help us navigate the law anyway, and would be lost without our panoply of excellent online reference tools and software applications.

“Yet, absent any human appreciation for the moral implications of rules, for their nuances and subtleties, absent compassion, absent man’s humanity to man, then the computer is as good as a runaway machine whose driver has fallen asleep at the wheel.”

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