Turkish government using AI tool to predict alleged ‘terrorist group’ links - Stockholm Center for Freedom

Stockholm Center for Freedom
Turkey's justice ministry is deploying artificial intelligence to analyze legal documents for alleged terrorist organization links, raising serious human rights and algorithmic bias concerns.

Summary

Turkey’s justice ministry has deployed an artificial intelligence tool called the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office Organization Prediction Project to analyze legal documents and predict associations with groups designated as terrorists. While the ministry claims the software prevents human error and improves data management, legal experts warn it could institutionalize flawed past judicial practices and systemic rights violations condemned by the European Court of Human Rights. Critics also emphasize a lack of transparency regarding the system's training data, error rates, and safeguards against bias within a heavily politicized judiciary.

(Source:Stockholm Center for Freedom)