ON JUDICIAL ETHICS AND HUMAN ESSENCE OF THE JUDGE FACTOR IN THE CONTEXT OF DIGITIZATION OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
The article examines the phenomenon of judge’s ethics, with its content being conscience, morality and inner conviction. The context for the issue is digitization of criminal proceedings. Analyzing such phenomenon as artificial intelligence, the author opposes it to the human factor of a judge, which includes both rational and irrational thinking. The latter is inherent in man, and its content is man’s spiritual inner world, needed to implement ethical norms. The author concludes that digital technology should be introduced into criminal proceedings to help the judge/ court, but not to replace them. Without the human factor, such technology is unable to fully cope with the issues of criminal proceedings.