AI floods Brazil’s courts with more lawsuits, not fewer

Brazil’s judicial system — among the most litigious in the world — is turning to artificial intelligence for help. 

Judges are using AI to clear their dockets at a faster clip than ever before, even as lawyers refill them rapidly, also with the help of AI. It’s a “vicious circle,” Rodrigo Badaró, a councilor monitoring AI use at the National Council of Justice, a constitutional body overseeing the judiciary, told Rest of World. 

“We note that the use of AI, in the end,…