Scientists in China have reportedly developed an artificial intelligence program able to file criminal charges. The artificial intelligence “prosecutor” is given a verbal definition of a case and then decides whether or not to file charges, per BizPacReview . The prosecutor files charges with a 97 percent accuracy rate and was created to reduce actual prosecutors’ workload. “The system can replace prosecutors in the decision-making process to a certain extent,” Shi Yong, director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ big data and knowledge management laboratory, said. The “prosecutor” can currently identify eight different crimes including credit card fraud, gambling-related offenses,...