Digitalization of Italian Administrative Justice: the Use of AI Technologies

ABSTRACT The contribution illustrates the experience of Italian administrative justice in the digital evolution, with particular reference to the implementation of recent projects for the introduction of AI technologies. The approach is operational and concrete and contains, in the initial part, a concise exposition of the goals achieved so far, with declination of the conditions that have allowed the start-up of the most innovative projects, in a framework in which the centrality of data has been strongly emphasised through numerous interconnected initiatives. The next development concerns the strategy for the use of AI technologies - in line with European regulation and inspired by a vision that has even anticipated the choices emerging from the initiatives of national discipline -, from which specific application spinoffs follow. The use cases developed will be indicated and, above all, the centrality of the judge’s role in defining the architecture of the products, in identifying methodologies and in training and supervision activities will be highlighted. The exposition concludes with a focus on cyber profiles pertaining both to security understood in a broad sense, including not only the aspects related to the growing cyber threat but also those directly related to the explicability of AI systems, and to environmental sustainability. In terms of content, this work provides operational guidance on a state-of-the-art model, shaped on real needs, with a view to concrete and measurable benefits and reliable, credible and sustainable future developments.

KEYWORDS Explainability - IA system - Administrative Justice - LLM, NER, NLP - Deep learning – Quantization – Cybersecurity – Ethical - Privacy

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. State of digitisation: realised developments and ongoing projects. – 2. AI in Italian Administrative Justice: deployment strategy and application effects. – 3. Selection and implementation of use cases: central role of the judge. – 4. Security implications of using AI. – 5. Relevance of environmental sustainability