Table 5.

Mapping the main features of Brazilian AI-ACTs to monitor criminal and court proceedings

Specific areas	Focal point (Number of initiatives)	Name of the AI-ACT/Developer	Approach	Users	Promote impact via	Main weaknesses observed
Criminal procedures	Charges of passive and active corruption against politicians (1)	Publique-se/Abraji, Transparency International Brazil and Digesto	Bottom-up	Any citizen with access to the internet	Promoting upward transparency and collective actions	Limited data (only higher courts and politicians who ran for office); risk of offering outdated information
	Investigation of corruption and correlated crimes and illicit activities (2)	Delphos/Federal Police and Watson/IBM	Top-down	Federal police officers and federal police officers in the State of Rio Grande do Sul	Automatizing and standardizing administrative tasks; Assisting criminal investigations	Limited auditability; high risk of bias and unfairness due to the quality of the data
	Depicts relations among individuals and companies mentioned in court cases (1)	PLACC/TCU	Top-down	Auditors from the TCU	Automatizing and standardizing administrative tasks; Assisting account procedures	Lack of clear criteria to select data; limited auditability; issues with ORC of digitalized documents
Court proceedings and practices	Inefficiency, delays and conflicts of interest in the Superior Labour Court (1)	Bem-Te-Vi/TST	Top-down	Civil servants from the Superior Labour Court	Automatizing and standardizing administrative tasks	Alert overflow and eventual lack of use; limited auditability; high risk of bias and unfairness
	Delays and inefficiency in the Supreme Court (1)	Rui Barbot/JOTA info news	Bottom-up	Any citizen with access to the internet and/or a Twitter account and JOTA journalists	Promoting upward transparency and collective actions	Limited data; lack of clear criteria to select data; issues to engage ordinary citizens; lack of use
	Salaries and benefits paid to judges and prosecutors (1)	DadosJusBR/ Federal University of Campina Grande and Transparência Brasil	Bottom-up	Any citizen with access to the internet	Promoting upward transparency and collective actions	Limited data; issues to engage ordinary citizens, lack of use