Chief Jus­tice Bryan Sykes says Ja­maica has be­come one of the first coun­tries in the re­gion im­ple­ment clear rules for how Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence (AI) can be used in its courts.

In mak­ing the state­ment on Tues­day, Sykes said the guide­lines are de­signed to en­sure that AI en­hances jus­tice de­liv­ery with­out un­der­min­ing fair­ness, ac­cu­ra­cy, or in­tegri­ty.

He said the rules ap­ply to the Supreme Court, the Rev­enue Court, the High Court and the Cir­cuit Di­vi­sions of the Gun Court.

Ac­knowl­edg­ing that there is a grow­ing use of AI in the prepa­ra­tion of le­gal doc­u­ments, the Chief Jus­tice called for this to be re­spon­si­ble, se­cure and trans­par­ent to en­sure that the in­tegri­ty of the ju­di­cial process is main­tained.

He not­ed at there are nu­mer­ous ben­e­fits of Gen­er­a­tive AI.

“It will en­hance ef­fi­cien­cy and en­hance court op­er­a­tions. It will al­so sim­pli­fy the prepa­ra­tion of le­gal sub­mis­sions, re­duce cler­i­cal de­lays , ease the fil­ing process and sup­port self rep­re­sen­ta­tive lit­i­gants. Court staff will al­so use AI to im­prove doc­u­ment man­age­ment, can sched­ul­ing and in­for­ma­tion re­trieval. En­sur­ing pro­ceed­ings are faster, more ac­cu­rate and trans­par­ent. For or­di­nary Ja­maicans, these changes mean faster ac­cess to jus­tice, clear­er process­es and a sys­tem that works for every­one.”

The Chief Jus­tice has al­so urged at­tor­neys to thor­ough­ly re­view doc­u­ments done with the as­sis­tance of AI be­fore sub­mis­sion to the court.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica, Oct. 9, CMC