Innovation Showcases
Research on Adopting a Socio-Judicial Approach to Implementing AI in the Court
Innovation Showcase Ari Niki Tobi
This research on AI and the Courts began over three years ago and I did my first presentation to female judges at an international conference in New York. I demonstrate the dilemmatic implications of AI on litigation, especially criminal trials, and the criminal justice system. I collected data from judges in attendance, and the findings confirmed my hypothesis. Part B research was conducted at a conference of court administrators in Singapore. I am in the process of collating that data to finalize the results. Therefore, my study discusses the research findings and AI’s impacts on court proceedings. In applying the collated data, I propose my unique socio-judicialism theory for implementing AI in courts. The over-reliance on AI is a socio-judicial threat to justice (humane justice), judicial integrity, society, and democratic development. Although AI will solve administrative problems in the court system, ensure a level of transparency, ensure speedy trials, or support a fair and speedy judicial system, the court’s reliance or over-reliance on AI is likely to cause more harm than good to the system and society in the long term. So, implementing AI in the court system, although valuable to justice delivery will create social and judicial problems, especially in the criminal justice system. I applied an empirical methodology with anonymous questionnaires to judges and other court administrators. The outcome of Part A is the Part B research in Singapore. Part C research will be shared at the conference.
A Tribute to Our Interdisciplinary Scientific Club in Boston for the 30th Birthday View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Irina Peterburgsky
The Club of Russian-Speaking Scholars of Massachusetts will celebrate its 30th birthday in 2026. The Club is a unique phenomenon in its organization, structure, methods of work, involvement and enthusiasm of its members, and most importantly, in its remarkable fruits. The scientists did not wither away, but regained their purpose in life, their spirit, and were able to use their creative potential. After all, the life of a scientist is not only physical existence, which, by the way, also receives considerable benefits as a result of activity in the club. For a scientist, life is, first of all, fresh ideas, creativity, intellectual tension, the joy of discovery and accomplishment. People of different ages (from 60 to 102 years old), different professions, adepts at various fields of science and art, completely different, dissimilar individuals—and every member of the club truly is an individuality, a distinct personality—managed to unite and create a unique, living, vibrating, breathing creature with a powerful intellect and enormous creative potential. The plan of scientific presentations and club meetings is drawn up and approved by the club board for a year in advance. Abstracts are sent out a week before the report. And then people start to get younger and shed years, returning to the way of life they were accustomed to from their youth: study the topic inside and out, read scientific articles on the subject, think about it, analyze it, and prepare to participate in the upcoming discussion, which will take place immediately after the report.
