Would you rather be tried in court by humans or artificial intelligence? This was the key question at the Iberseries & Platino Industria conference in Madrid on Wednesday evening and at the market.
Event education platform Platino Educa screens new film man-made justice (man-made justice) from Spain and Portugal. The film is written and directed by Simon Cassar and stars Veronica Echegui, Tamar Novas, Alba Garrocha and Alberto Ammann.
“In the near future, the government aims to replace judges with artificial intelligence software, promising to effectively automate and depoliticize the judicial system,” the summary explains. “The distinguished judge Carmen Costa has been invited to evaluate this new procedure. However, when the creator of the software is found dead, she realizes that her life is in danger and that she will have to fight against powerful interests at the highest levels of the country.
Judging from the post-screening applause, the audience response to the film was overwhelmingly positive.
Later, producer Mariela Besuievsky, actor Ammann, Telefonica Criminal Compliance Committee Attorney’s Secretary Juan Fernandez Tamames and Spanish Supreme Court Judge Antonio del Moral answer questions and discuss the film’s impact on the current debate about the role of artificial intelligence.
Besuievsky told the audience that Casal started the project about five years ago because he was interested in big data and the impact of ChatGPT. With the film, she said, “his decision to focus on justice was also helped by the fact that his wife is a judge,” she said, according to an English translation of all the panelists’ Spanish comments provided via headphones at the event.
Carmen’s backstory and her living situation as depicted in the film are key to exploring the debate between humans and technology. “With ‘Carmen,’ we wanted to make it more human and personal,” the producers explain. “This is Carmen’s human story,” Aman added.
Besuievsky shared that at some point in the film’s development, she asked the creative team if artificial intelligence should also be used in the film to further the story’s key themes and conflicts. The response was clear. “There was a huge rebellion,” he said.
An interesting part of the movie’s storyline is when a character reveals that some of the key figures behind the development of artificial intelligence tools may be getting preferential treatment from them instead of the objective decision-making that was promised. “Do we have a VIP code?” Besuievsky summarized a possible future question related to artificial intelligence. “That’s terrible.”
Discussing the ethics of artificial justice, del Moral told the panel that technology may be more accurate, but not always fair in the human sense. “Human justice is not perfect,” he said. “Algorithmic justice is a temptation, but it dehumanizes us.”
Adding that he sometimes thinks of blade runnerTames believes that the focus of government and industry will be on developing safeguards and guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence.
Amman expressed some concerns, wondering aloud whether real life and movies might be different, mainly in terms of the public being informed and voting on AI in movies.
The actor also said that some of the seemingly futuristic tech themes covered in the movie may become a reality sooner than expected. “exist 2001: A Space OdysseyI saw my first video call,” Aman shared. “I thought it would never happen. Now, we have this feature on all our phones.
Earlier in the session on the second day of the fourth Iberseries, Anonymous Content and Fremantle executives were among those discussing their TV strategy and growing film business.
