Research Notes

A recent edition of the New Statesman magazine led with a front-page questioning whether Artificial intelligence was an existential threat or humanity's salvation. 2 The substantive article interviewed three "Godfathers of AI," who whilst they disagreed as to whether AI would surpass humanity in consciousness or intelligence, agreed that this technology would have radical impacts on humanity's reliance on AI.The solution to such a crisis, accordingly to one of these "Godfathers," Geoffrey Hinton, was to retain, within AI, dependence on humanity indefinity. 3My current research is focused upon the relationship between Christian concepts of justice and mercy and the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence in the criminal justice system.Central to such considerations is whether the AI tail, could in fact wag the dog of justice and mercy, by ceding dependence in the criminal justice system from humanity to AI. Inherent within the deployment of such technologies are deeply encoded assumptions about risk management and economic efficiency prevalent within Western Democracies, and the perfectibility of algorithmic justice.My argument is that much