Judge Juan Manuel Padilla Garcia, ChatGPT, and a controversial medicolegal milestone
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Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) has revolutionized how we perceive artificial intelligence (AI).: Judge Juan Manuel Padilla Garcia created history by mentioning its use while passing judgment about an autistic child and payment for his medical treatment by his insurance company. The use of AI is not new and is helping the judiciary system in many ways. However, this judgment given on January 30, 2023, has ignited controversy among Judge Garcia’s peers and the global community (a Google search produced more than 70 million hits on February 5, 2023). EU has established guidelines that are to be followed before calling any AI tool trustworthy. This requires stringent compliance with the verification and due diligence process. In this instance, ChatGPT was used within 2 months of its launch, even when it has been shown to give incomplete, incorrect, and misleading answers in many instances. Hasty adaption of unproven technology, however good it may be, should not be our path. This might fuel the misguided fear amongst people about robots taking over from human judges.
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“For instance, in January 2023, a Columbian judge used ChatGPT to transcribe his interactions with witnesses, material that he later used to justify his verdict (Parikh et al., 2023).”
- Authors
- Parikh, P. M., Shah, D. M., & Parikh, K. P.
- Affiliations
- Professor and Head of Clinical Hematology, Department of Clinical Hematology, Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Jaipur, India,
- Department of Interventional Cardiology, Michigan Physicians Group, Troy, United States,
- AKSP Solutions, Auckland, New Zealand,
- ORCID
- Parikh, Purvish M.
- Venue
- Indian Journal of Medical Sciences
- Publisher
- Scientific Scholar
- Published
- 2023-03-02
- Volume
- 75
- Pages
- 3-8
- ISSN
- 0019-5359 (ISSN-L)
- 1998-3654
- OpenAlex
- W4323044707
- Cited by
- 24
- References
- 4
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 9
- FWCI
- 23.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-sa
- Locations
- Indian Journal of Medical Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Artificial Intelligence in Law
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Social Sciences › Law › Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
- Keywords
- ChatGPT, artificial intelligence in courts, autism spectrum disorder, health insurance coverage, trustworthy AI, due diligence, AI reliability, judicial decision-making
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