Polls suggest that “judges, judicial support staff, prosecutors, and lawyers around the globe have started to use chatbots. The tone is wary, thoughtful, sagacious, occasionally amused — and almost uniformly scepticalThe study, co-authored by researchers from Harvard, Toulouse and Maynooth University, reports how judicial perceptions of how the integration of AI into judicial systems might transform the way judges and legal professionals work. As background it is important to note that, in contrast to the US Supreme Court, UK Supreme Court judges typically write their judgments by themselves. My judicial assistant will do research for me and maybe give me an analysis of cases, but I will then go to the cases. Similarly, the judicial assistant might produce a chronology, but I will go to the individual documents when I’m writing the judgment”.