Al tie-up set to 'revolutionise' legal system

The Office of the Council of State (OCS) has partnered with Microsoft to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to revolutionise Thailand’s legal system.

- SUCHIT LEESA-NGUANSUK

The move may facilitate Thailand's plan to become a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

In the long term, the council wants to empower people by providing them with accessible legal information and tools, fostering greater public understanding and preventing misleading information.

The partnership launched the TH2O-ECD system, an Al-powered platform designed to help local officials navigate their way through OECD legal instruments and documents.

"We are using AI as a crucial tool to modernise Thailand’s legal system by analysing more than 70,000 Thai laws and more than 270 OECD legal instruments, as part of our efforts to join the OECD and enhance the country’s global competitiveness," said Pakorn Nilprapunt, secretary-general of the OCS.

Co-developed by OCS and Thai AI service provider STelligence on the Microsoft Azure OpenAI platform, the system boasts powerful capabilities in analysing and comparing more than 70,000 Thai laws with 270 OECD legal instruments in real time.

The system supports bilingual processing in both Thai and English through automatic translation and leverages natural language processing (NLP) technology to detect legal discrepancies and recommend the fine-tuning of local content to be in line with the global legal standard.