The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Future Functioning of Administrative Courts

The study presents the evolution of court decision-making justifications over time and the recent impact of electronic case law databases, particularly the Central Database of Administrative Court Judgments and commercial legal websites, on the structure of justifications for administrative court judgments. The issues discussed include the function of justifying a judgment, its communicativeness, the addressee of the statement, the problem of excessive length of some justifications, duplication of the content of other statements, and judicial justifications. Additionally, an effort was made to address the question of whether algorithms or artificial intelligence response generators could potentially replace humans in issuing even the simplest court decisions or writing their justifications in the near future. The discussion addressed whether technology enables this, if humans consent to it, and the legal and ethical risks involved, particularly the shifting of responsibility for the content of the justification to a bot operating with artificial intelligence. Finally, the question of whether even the most technologically advanced program using artificial intelligence will be able to take into account extra-legal judicial directives in a possible judgment and its justification will be addressed. Such directives may include the judge’s inner sense of justice, his sensitivity, or his conscience.