On Friday, June 14, Mihnea Constantinescu, a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, visited the Supreme Court of Latvia as part of the program of guest lectures of foreign academics organized by the Latvian Law Institute. Senators of the Department of Civil Cases Marika Senkāne and Kaspars Balodis, senators of the Department of Administrative Cases Dzintra Amerika and Anita Kovaļevska, the legal research counsel Iveta Pundure and the senator of the Department of Criminal Cases Aija Branta met with the lecturer.

In the course of the conversation, issues related to the main topic of the guest lecture, namely machine learning and artificial intelligence, as well as the challenges they bring were discussed. Mihnea Constantinescu explained how artificial intelligence functions, i.e. how the technical process goes, how correlations and causal links are formed. Representatives of the Supreme Court were interested in the possibilities of practical application of artificial intelligence tools, how reliable these tools are and how the level of reliability can be determined, as well as who is responsible for the functioning of these tools. The lecturer emphasized that it is best to use artificial intelligence tools in areas that a person knows well, so that the person can evaluate which artificial intelligence solutions to trust and which not. The advantage is that these tools speed up the work, processing large amounts of data in a short period of time and providing several variations of results that might not even occurred to the user. It is important to note that it is the person who provides the data, decides what is solvable and how it should be solved.

In the course of the conversation, the Artificial Intelligence Act of the European Union adopted this year was also discussed, namely its risks and benefits.

At the conclusion of the visit, Mihnea Constantinescu visited the Supreme Court Museum and historical premises of the Palace of Justice, gaining an insight into the history of the Supreme Court.

Read more about the lecturer in the previous press release of the Supreme Court.

 

Information prepared by Iveta Jaudzema, Communication specialist of the Supreme Court

E-mail: iveta.jaudzema@at.gov.lv; telephone: +371 67020396