These cyber courts are giving a tech twist to law with AI judges, verdicts on WeChat

CHINA: Artificial intelligence judges, cybercourts, and verdicts delivered on chat apps — welcome to China’s brave new world of justice spotlighted by authorities this week.

China is encouraging digitisation to streamline case-handling within its sprawling court system using cyberspace and technologies like blockchain and cloud computing, China’s Supreme People’s Court said in a policy paper.