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The Court of Cassation, particularly for the needs of disseminating case law in open data, has taken a pioneering approach to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and has conducted, over the past few months, extensive reflections that are both ambitious and cautious, on the potential development of new artificial intelligence systems (AIS), including within the scope of its jurisdictional missions as a Supreme Court. This article traces these reflections and the methodology that was deployed to evaluate the identified use cases, for the Court’s own needs and, for some, potentially useful also to lower courts, in light of ethical, legal, functional, technical, and economic criteria. Furthermore, the authors aim to demonstrate the possible contributions of AI, while highlighting the guiding principles of an ethical judicial AI and the necessity of implementing governance that ensures a continuous evaluation process of the impact of AIS on human rights.