ChatGPT, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tool, has seduced and impressed users around the world by showing itself as a kind of informative and creative oracle whose possibilities when it comes to creating automatic texts are practically endless.
Now, the technology has generated a new controversy when it was used by a judge in Colombia who wrote a sentence that decided whether an autistic child’s insurance should cover all the costs of his medical treatment. He also used precedents from previous decisions to support his decision.
According to the British newspaper The Guardian, Juan Manuel Padilla, a judge for the city of Cartagena, concluded that all the child’s medical and transport expenses should be paid by his plan, since the parents might not afford them. If the decision itself was not controversial, Padilla generated controversy by asking things like “is an autistic minor exempt from paying fees for his therapies?” for ChatGPT.
“According to Colombian regulations, minors diagnosed with autism are exempt from paying fees for their therapies,” replied the AI.
Despite criticism from colleagues, Padilla defended the use of technology, suggesting that it might help the efficiency of the Colombian judicial system, especially when writing texts, but recognizing that the tool should never be the judge’s only source of information, much least one teacher.
On the other hand, Colombia passed a law in the past that suggests that public attorneys should use technology wherever possible to make their work more efficient. Octavio Tejeiro, a judge on the Supreme Court of Colombia, said AI caused a moral panic in the law as people feared robots would replace judges, but he believes the tool, inescapably, will soon become commonplace — provided that following ethics and always having a final sieve of a human being.
And you, what do you think of the use of AI in everyday life? Do you believe they can help human productivity?