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I mean honestly without the theoretical misdirection, I'd find this one of the better examples of a reasonable use of AI within a courtroom. IE it sounds like he asked to represent himself. He presented a video which, to my knowledge all the arguements were written by the person himself. Second the judge asked who it was he said the avitar is AI, presenting his arguements.
So in short, the only thing that's attempted to be bypassed, are biases related to his appearence and speech.
IMO this concept could be the real future of trials if done right. Imagine say if we used say extreme facial tracking AI, hid the defendent's actual appearence, but allowed the defendants to use avitars, that still map out any facial expressions and body language they make during the trial... but actually conceal the defendent's actual race and appearance. We could literally be looking at the one solution to the racial bias... the reality that with the same evidence, race plays a huge part in conviction rate and harshness of sentences.
It's a really interesting thought, and under ideal circumstances would work IMO. Obviously things are never ideal and there would be all sorts of roadblocks and gotchas as something like this was developed. Things we could think of now, and other things we probably couldn't. Not to mention the whole problem of, "who develops it and how much trust can you give them?"
As I was reading the idea, it made me think of the suits from A Scanner Darkly that the undercover narcs wore. Basically heavily obfuscated the voice and displayed always-changing patchwork human features to anyone observing from the outside, including trying to hide body shape. Something like that could get similar results. Obviously a video filter would be much easier to develop than a sci-fi suit, but still.
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