标题： 自动化法律行为者的伦理学 显示英文标题

标题： The Ethics of Automating Legal Actors

摘要： 大型公共法律数据集的引入为法律自然语言处理带来了复兴。 这些数据集中有许多是由法官判决案件所产生的法律裁决。 这一事实，加上机器学习的工作方式，意味着一些法律自然语言处理模型实际上是法官的模型。 虽然有人主张自动化法官角色，但在此立场文章中，我们认为自动化法官的角色会引发困难的伦理挑战，尤其是在普通法法律体系中。 我们的论点基于法官在积极塑造法律中的社会角色，而不仅仅是适用法律。 由于当前的自然语言处理模型在完成这项任务所需的设施方面远远不够，因此不应用于自动化法官。 此外，即使模型能够达到人类水平的能力，法律过程自动化的固有伦理问题仍然存在。 显示英文摘要

摘要： The introduction of large public legal datasets has brought about a renaissance in legal NLP. Many of these datasets are comprised of legal judgements - the product of judges deciding cases. This fact, together with the way machine learning works, means that several legal NLP models are models of judges. While some have argued for the automation of judges, in this position piece, we argue that automating the role of the judge raises difficult ethical challenges, in particular for common law legal systems. Our argument follows from the social role of the judge in actively shaping the law, rather than merely applying it. Since current NLP models come nowhere close to having the facilities necessary for this task, they should not be used to automate judges. Furthermore, even in the case the models could achieve human-level capabilities, there would still be remaining ethical concerns inherent in the automation of the legal process.