By Saloni Sinha ( August 19, 2026, 04:07 GMT | Insight) -- While lawyers and judges have no choice but to “wholeheartedly” embrace artificial intelligence, they must resist allowing machines to make autonomous judicial decisions without the fully informed consent of the parties, a senior UK judge has warned the Australian legal community. In a speech in Sydney late on Tuesday, Geoffrey Vos, the head of civil justice for England and Wales, said that it is inevitable that AI will be used not just to inform judicial decision-making, but also as the judicial decision-maker in some fields in some places.While lawyers and judges have no choice but to “wholeheartedly” embrace artificial intelligence, they must resist allowing machines to make autonomous judicial decisions without the fully informed consent of the parties, a senior UK judge has warned the Australian legal community....
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