Is AI Displacing the Foundations of Criminal Procedure?
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This talk asks a simple question: what happens to criminal procedure when decisions are no longer made by humans alone? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly used across policing, prosecution, and courts, yet most discussions focus on specific applications rather than the system as a whole. This talk takes a step back and considers how these developments might affect the assumptions on which criminal procedure has traditionally been built. While its core values, such as due process, fairness, and transparency, remain central, the conditions under which they operate may be changing in less visible ways. The aim is to open up a broader discussion about whether existing procedural frameworks are fully equipped to address these developments. Beneath the practical debates lies a more unsettling possibility: that the structure meant to constrain power may be changing unnoticed.
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Dr Qin (Sky) Ma is an academic visitor at the University of Oxford and a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (MPI-CSL). Sky is currently the head of two projects at MPI-CSL on AI and criminal law. Her work examines the impact of AI on criminal procedure, evidence law, and punishment theory from a comparative and empirical perspective.
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