The judicial application of artificial intelligence (AI) technology is giving rise to the historical transition from “access to justice” to “visual justice”, leading to profound reform of the judicial operational mechanism, and reshaping the judicial process through recreated scene, digital coding of legal texts, modeling of judicial decision making and intelligent service management, thereby greatly improving the social efficiency of intelligent justice. However, the application of AI in the judicial realm has its inherent limits. For instance, algorithmic decision-making is not fully capable of absolute objectiveness and accuracy. When dealing with sophisticated and complex cases, it can promote procedural justice, but is faced with great difficulties in realizing substantive justice. In order to give full play to the function of AI in optimizing and reshaping the judicial process, it is necessary to regulate the use of AI and minimize its risks, establish regulatory and remedial mechanisms for algorithmic decision-making, introduce the ideas of openness, fairness and accountability, give full play to the advantages of technology and eliminate its harmful effect, promote the idea of “tech for social good” and the positive development of smart court, and better realize “visual justice”. |