Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. focused his 2023 year-end report on the effect of artificial intelligence on the legal profession, predicting Sunday that it will have a profound impact on the jobs of judges but won’t replace the fundamentally human discretion at the heart of the court system.

“As 2023 draws to a close with breathless predictions about the future of Artificial Intelligence, some may wonder whether judges are about to become obsolete,” Roberts wrote. “I am sure we are not—but equally confident that technological changes will continue to transform our work.”