The fusion between artificial intelligence and blockchain, allows us to give life to courts that we could define 2.0, in which to write the sentence is not a judge in the flesh but an algorithm. It sounds like science fiction but actually it already happens in China, as reported by the Xinhua news agency a few days ago, in fact, over the last year alone, there have been more than 3 million complaints settled by a virtual judge in the country. The advantages of this system are obvious to all, very short times for justice and equally low costs for the public administration are the main reasons that justify an investment in this direction.

China was the first country in the world to establish virtual courts of justice in the city of Hangzhou already in 2017, now, even in light of the successes of this test, work is being done to extend the service to cities such as Beijing and Guangzhou; clearly the limits and risks of these platforms are known to all, first and foremost to the operators of the sector, however it is legitimate now to hypothesize a future in which these limits will be fully overcome. Moreover, already in April the president of the Beijing internet court, Zhang Wen, was the one to remember that:

Currently the AI in the courts is mainly used as a sort of virtual assistant that helps us make decisions, we are still in a phase where efficiency is a priority with respect to accuracy; at this moment only a human judge can be considered responsible for a fair sentence, we are already heading towards a future in which artificial intelligence will issue the sentences

The Chinese "intelligent court" has currently registered over 1 million citizens and just over 70,000 lawyers, who can already avail themselves of this type of service; obviously, however, artificial intelligence alone could not be fully used in this area without integration with the blockchain. Indeed, the chain of blocks, in fact, is responsible for storing documents and evidence, as well as their immutability; it must then be considered that just a couple of months ago the Chinese supreme court ruled that the evidence authenticated via blockchain have full legal validity, so that even the last obstacle to the use of this technology in the legal sphere has definitely fallen.