How about using Artificial Intelligence to decide family and juvenile dependency court cases?

No, courts deal with complex human situations that require judgment, empathy, cultural understanding, and accountability — qualities that technology still cannot fully provide.

AI can be useful as a tool to assist courts with research, scheduling, document review, or identifying patterns in large amounts of information aka “tasks”.  However, relying entirely on AI to decide legal disputes raises serious concerns about fairness, bias, transparency, and due process. An AI system only knows the information it is given, and not understand the emotional, social, cultural realities, history, etc.  behind a case.

There is also the danger of hearing only one side of a story. In family law and other personal disputes, context matters. People come from different communities, countries, and legal systems, each with its own laws, customs, and expectations. A machine may process data, but it cannot truly understand human experience the way a thoughtful judge can.  AI may support justice systems, but replacing judges entirely would risk turning deeply human decisions into purely technical ones