France - 1. What is the understanding or definition of AI in your jurisdiction?

The Digital Republic Act No 2016-1321 of 7 October 2016 authorised the administration to make decisions regarding a person on the basis of an algorithm on the condition that it includes an explicit mention of the interested party information.196 In addition, the source code of the algorithms used by the administration has been included among the documents that any citizen has the right to request. [...] DataJust was created to allow the retrospective and prospective evaluation of public policies in matters of civil and administrative liability, the elaboration of an indicative reference system for personal injury compensation, the information of the parties and the assistance in the evaluation of the amount of compensation to which the victims may be entitled in order to encourage an amicable set. [...] Finally, the first European Ethical Charter on the use of AI in judicial systems and their environment was adopted by the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) of the Council of Europe.207 Providing a framework to guide legal and justice professionals, this text is the very first setting forth ethical principles relating to the use of AI in judicial systems such as: • ‘Principl. [...] Moreover, the Premier President of the Court of Cassation and the President of the CNB signed a joint declaration on 25 March 2018.209 It contains the following proposals to: • give the Court of Cassation the responsibility of collecting and circulating the decisions of the judiciary and making available to the public a single database of judicial decisions of the judiciary; • involve the Court of. [...] The Court of Cassation appears to be now at the forefront at EU level of the automated pseudonymisation of court decisions.210 Moreover, the CNB is part of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), an EU association gathering bar associations of 32 European countries, which published its considerations on the legal aspects of AI in 2020.211 Recently, the CCBE also published a positio.