I hope AI can assist in the knowledge gathering phases, and for civil cases I think it can be a huge value add.

For criminal cases though: the current judicial system is wayy too punitive. And an AI that would apply the letter of the law would likely criminalize society even more than what has already happened so far.

One happy scenario would be if the laws were more responsive and were changed to not be so punitive since the AI would have a high rate of conviction.

But then, you might have other failure scenarios. Rich people buying AI programmers and hackers to mess with the system.

Its a constant game of outsmarting the latest tech.

This would be a major holy grail and a turning point where major professional analysis and decision making are are outsourced to AI services. You would have a hybrid of lawyers with AI and that should lower the costs....unless the other defendant counsel uses their own AI to raise the costs.

We are in for some truly exciting times.