The impact of artificial intelligence on popular culture and law: a socio-legal analysis

The development of high-quality AI technologies and their applications has revolutionized our society.  It is a revolution that cannot be reversed. It has also come to transform much of the labour landscape, affecting a large number of services and professions, which have been forced to adapt their way of acting to these new times.

This new paradigm of digitization and algorithmization takes many forms, such as markets based on digital platforms and algorithms, robots, or detection by machines in the creation of borders and urban planning, as well as automated decision making and digitization of legal files and procedural acts, even the use of AI tools in the prediction of judicial decisions and in conflict resolution assistance.
In this context we observe that more and more our societies are mediated and conditioned by digital technologies, which implies and entails the challenge of regulating this new scenario, every time a new and important actor has entered the scene.

Popular culture, citizens' perception of the law, public administrations and the administration of justice cannot remain oblivious to this new reality that is being imposed on us. Moreover, the incorporation of advanced artificial intelligence technologies, in the field of the Administration of Justice, is allowing the automation of a multitude of tasks that are currently performed by different operators and legal professionals, which will may cause that many of these services and routine tasks can be developed by ma-chines, with the consequent loss of prominence of these professional groups. The latest technological advances are here to stay and to bring about a profound transformation, not only in the Administration of Justice, but also in our society as a whole.

This workshop will try to provide a critical perspective on these problems and challenges. Thus, the workshop aims to open up new perspectives on the impact of the emergent artificial intelligence technologies in the field of justice administration, and in the perception, citizens may have regarding law and justice, in this new digital era.

There are 15 confirmed participants, bringing perspectives from the Basque Country, Spain, England, Wales, Scotland, Italy, France, Greece and Chile, bringing different points of view from diverse legal cultures. This range of perspectives is crucial to address a theoretical framework that can respond to the pressure exerted by the artificial intelligence technologies in the field of justice, and to respond to the new challenges we face with their irruption.