Well… for me it’s the normal courts that should have the same digital/non-digital skills, now separated "AI/non-AI, Cloud/non-Cloud" it is already outdated for the businesses themselves. Things are so intertwined that it will take courts to establish who would be the competent judges =) anyway "it doesn’t hurt"at most it lengthens the time.
“My idea involves the establishment of an “Internet Court”, or rather of specialized sections on digital matters within Italian ordinary courts: judges trained specifically to manage disputes on software, cloud, artificial intelligence, platforms and data. Causes in which digital performance is the heart of the relationship – wrote Polimeni – If this bill were approved, we would be the first in Europe to equip ourselves with specialized judges. Now the text will be discussed. The process is the parliamentary one, with its times and uncertainties. But the work is done, the text is deposited, and for the first time in this country there is an organic proposal to give digital disputes the judge they deserve.”
A voice out of the chorus makes some critical observations. A user writes “I’m going against the tide: for me an idea that throws a little water on all sides. 1: it amplifies what should be avoided in terms of “AI Safety” or amplifies the ignorance of the judges who are kept out of this new “specialization”, when at the moment the opposite should be done, i.e. providing the judges with knowledge such that they are not overwhelmed in these cases. 2: if the bill has now been presented, the implementation is arriving extremely late… if it arrives. 3: even if it were a good one. idea, the judges should be trained in a totally different way, the same for the competition….again..we are not there with the timing”.
Here is a more technical article: The digital court arrives: Italy could be the first in Europe to have judges specialized in AI – Byte.it
How the proposal works and what changes for those who argue about digital
The criterion that delimits the competence of the new sections is the notion of “legal relationships with predominantly digital performance”: This includes disputes where the main focus of the claim concerns the supply, development, right to use, integration, maintenance or economic exploitation of digital goods, services, systems or infrastructures, including artificial intelligence systems. as defined by European regulation 2024/1689.
Disputes attributed to the labor judge and those devolved to the administrative jurisdiction remain outside the competence of the new sections, as do the cases already under the jurisdiction of the sections on business matters when the digital profile is ancillary to the main object. In this way the proposal fits into the existing system without duplication. The new specialization does not replace the business sections, but supports them on a different terrain, identified by the centrality of digital performance and not by the sole presence of technology in the controversial relationship.
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