Author：Xu Duoqi
Abstract: Standing at the crossroads of the fourth industrial revolution, technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing are bringing about a paradigm shift in judicial civilization. Faced with the trend of judicial intelligence transformation, we need to adhere to the bottom line of the rule of law at the value level, prevent technological rationality from eroding the foundation of humanistic care, and jointly explore the path to realizing digital justice. In view of this, the editorial department of “Exploration and Free Views” and the Law School of Shanghai University of International Business and Economics jointly held a roundtable meeting, inviting experts in relevant fields to have in-depth discussions on core issues such as the digital judicial landscape, intelligent practice exploration, and adherence to judicial values. Professor Fu Yulin pointed out that AI judges are the ultimate state of applying artificial intelligence technology to judicial activities, and the current level of AI development is still far from the level of legal specialization required to undertake core judicial functions, but it still has technical feasibility in theory. Professor Wang Fuhua believes that digital justice should be achieved through correcting digital injustice, repairing digital infringement, balancing technological power, realizing procedural justice, and promoting digital inclusiveness. Professor Tang Li emphasized the need to take specific measures in terms of ethical standards, positioning of “human-machine relationships”, application scope, and strengthening technical security guarantees for the application of artificial intelligence in the judiciary, in order to clarify the limitations of AI judicial applications. Professor Xu Duoqi believes that it is necessary to simultaneously eliminate institutional barriers such as cross domain collaboration, division of rights and responsibilities, and standardized application in the process of handling financial cases, while breaking down data barriers, accurately adapting algorithms, and building strong security mechanisms. Professor Zhang Xingmei pointed out that artificial intelligence is currently playing a substantive role as the “fourth party” of intelligence in dispute resolution, but we should also be wary of the alienation of civil justice by technology supremacy. Associate Professor Huang Zemin has established three standards for the intervention of intelligent technology in the judicial field: strong, medium, and weak. Researcher Ji Pingping pointed out that the development of artificial intelligence technology provides a possible path for optimizing the structure of judicial documents. However, due to the dual attributes of factual determination and value judgment inherent in legal reasoning, artificial intelligence is still unable to handle the task of automatically generating documents with standardized creation and reasoning functions.
Journal：Exploration and Free Views (CSSCI), (11).
Publish date: 2025/11/20
