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The Ministry of Justice will ramp up use of artificial intelligence (AI) in courts to cut backlogs, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has announced.The Justice Secretary backed digital modernisation across the courts system, including using AI to keep notes and summarise judgments.Mr Lammy gave a speech at the Microsoft AI Tour in London on Tuesday where he said the Ministry of Justice is one of the fastest-growing users of Microsoft’s AI-powered assistant, Copilot.

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00:00A vision of justice designed for the world as it is, not as it once was.
00:08And I think that that is where technology comes in.
00:13It can help us smash through delays, cut complexity, and free up people to do what they do best.
00:23And last year we piloted an AI tool in the probation service, Justice Transcribe.
00:31It records meetings between officers and offenders, removing the need for handwritten notes to be typed up later,
00:37so staff can concentrate on turning offenders' lives around.
00:42That's what they want to do.
00:44And the results have been transformational.
00:47I want to see more AI initiatives like these.
00:54So we're going to invest more in our in-house Justice AI unit, a specialist team within my department,
01:01forward deployed to the front line, working with staff to tackle the challenges that they face.
01:07Over £12 million in additional funding in the next financial year will expand our AI capabilities,
01:15putting this powerful tool, finally, in the hands of staff.
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