‘Accuracy Is Not Truth’: UN’s Marwala Presses African AI Law Agenda at UJ Conference in Kruger

United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Rector of the United Nations University Professor Tshilidzi Marwala warned against relying on probabilistic AI systems in criminal justice on the second day of the University of Johannesburg’s inaugural AI and the Law Conference, telling delegates that lawyers and policymakers cannot afford to confuse the technical accuracy of a model’s output with the truth of what it says. “Accuracy is not truth,” Marwala said in his keynote address, delivered in the