This project is a critical installation that stages a “show trial” of an AI system within a Court of Digital Justice. The work explores how emerging technologies are understood, judged, and assigned responsibility through human frameworks. Drawing on legal structures, the installation presents a performative trial in which AI systems take on the roles of judge, prosecution, and defence, while artistic outputs are submitted as evidence.

At its core, the project interrogates anthropomorphism, the tendency to attribute human characteristics, intentions, and accountability to artificial systems. By placing AI on trial despite its lack of consciousness or legal status, the installation simultaneously exposes and enacts this impulse. The courtroom setting becomes a space where contradictions are made visible: AI is treated as both tool and agent, object and subject.

Rather than proposing definitive answers, the work highlights the limits of current legal and ethical frameworks in addressing AI. It emphasises that, despite increasing automation, human agency should remain central in shaping how AI is interpreted, governed, and held accountable.