Unless the judges factor in the ungovernability of technologies and their beneficial owners, present and future Presidents, prime ministers, judges, legislators and officials handling sensitive assignments may become redundant with reference to their age-old roles for securing national resources and assets, warns Dr Gopal Krishna.
In the moment of Uber-isation and Ola-isation of services, wherein an app links a supplier with a consumer via a platform and the app provider may be based in one country, the supplier in another and the consumer in a third, the imminent verdict on the unjustness of the Aadhaar Act has put the five Supreme Court judges on the Constitution bench on trial.
It has emerged that the problem that beset the trial judges also engulfs the appellate judges.
Allowing present and future Presidents, prime ministers, judges, military personnel, poets and citizens and even non-citizens to be biometrically ‘profiled to the nth extent for all and sundry to know’ by a 12-digit Unique Identification (UID)/Aadhaar number for the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) is indefensible.
The trust which the lawyers of the ministry of electronics and information technology’s Unique Identification Authority of India and its proponents wish the judges of the Constitution bench to place in the certainty and guidance of UID technology, artificial intelligence technology, computer prediction and statistical inquiries is tantamount to predicting human judicial behaviour through jurimetrics.
This non-human turn ends up promoting the use of symbolic logic, behaviour models, mechanical aids for prediction of both individuals and groups to eliminate personal element from judicial, administrative and political decisions.
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