Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs and the Supreme Administrative Court have signed a letter of intent to pilot an AI assistant for administrative court staff and judges
This is a signed intention and a 30-person pilot, not a rule. The useful details are the four tasks being tested, the judge-approval condition, and the data the court has agreed to share to improve the tools.
Bottom line: The ministry and the Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) signed a letter of intent. The announcement establishes no binding court rule, and the letter's legal effect was not verified. A pilot with 30 NSA staff, called ambassadors, will test a version of the ministry's Asystent Urzędniczy AI. The page announces no statute or court rule.
Who this affects: Litigators before Polish administrative courts, court technology vendors, and judiciary and legal operations teams.
Issue date: 20 October 2026 (page date). The page gives no start date, end date or duration for the pilot.
What changed: The ministry and the NSA agreed to cooperate on AI in administrative courts. The ministry says a dedicated judge assistant is to be built after the pilot.
Analysis: In our reading, the page's firm condition is human approval: the ministry says every AI-created document will have to be checked and approved by a judge. Everything else is a plan, and the page gives no date for the later tool.
- Instrument (English)
- Press release on the signing of a letter of intent on AI in administrative courts (title: "Asystent AI dla sędziów - PLLuM trafi do Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego"). The text of the letter itself is not published on the page
- Authority
- Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (Ministry of Digital Affairs), jointly with the Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny (Supreme Administrative Court)
- Jurisdiction
- Poland
- Status
- Letter of intent signed; pilot announced. The page gives no start date
- Bindingness
- The announcement establishes no binding court rule as far as the page shows; the letter's legal effect was not verified. It describes a letter of intent and a pilot, cites no statute or court rule, and says the cooperation rests on voluntariness and transparency. Whether the letter creates any legal obligation is the desk's reading, not stated in the source
- Issue date
- 20 October 2026 (page date)
- Effective date
- Not stated in the source. No binding rule is announced
- What changed
- The ministry and the NSA agreed to cooperate on deploying AI in administrative courts, starting with a pilot of the ministry's Asystent Urzędniczy AI by 30 NSA staff, with a dedicated judge assistant to follow on the pilot's results
- Who this affects
- Litigators before Polish administrative courts, court technology vendors, and judiciary and legal operations teams. The page speaks of judges, court staff and judge assistants
- Primary source
- Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, Asystent AI dla sędziów - PLLuM trafi do Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego (20.10.2026)
- Workflow impact
- Not stated in the source as a requirement for any court user. The page says AI-created documents will have to be checked and approved by a judge, and it does not address filings by parties or counsel
- Operational next step
- Court technology and legal operations teams can watch for the pilot's start, scope and any published results, and can ask the ministry or the NSA how the later judge assistant will treat case-file data
- Last verified
- 2026-10-25
Primary source: Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, Asystent AI dla sędziów - PLLuM trafi do Naczelnego Sądu Administracyjnego
Key takeaways
- The ministry's page describes a letter of intent and a pilot. It cites no statute or court rule.
- Thirty NSA staff, called ambassadors, will test a pilot version of the ministry's Asystent Urzędniczy AI.
- The page says every document created by AI will have to be checked and approved by a judge.
- A dedicated assistant for administrative court judges is to be built from the pilot results. The page gives no date for it.
What did the Ministry of Digital Affairs and the NSA actually sign?
A letter of intent, according to the ministry's page of 20 October 2026. The page says the ministry and the Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny (NSA) signed a "list intencyjny" on cooperation in deploying artificial intelligence in administrative courts, and that judges and court staff are to get an AI tool for day-to-day work, "from summarising documents to analysing the law" (desk translation).
The page does not publish the letter, a docket number or a signing location. It describes the cooperation as based on voluntariness and transparency. It names two speakers: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Affairs Krzysztof Gawkowski, and the NSA President, Prof. Jacek Chlebny. Mr Gawkowski is quoted as saying that "at the end of every process a person must always stand" (desk translation of the Polish original). The Polish phrase on the page is "na końcu każdego procesu zawsze musi stać człowiek".
What will the pilot test, and who approves the output?
The test covers four tasks, and the ministry attaches a human-approval condition to every AI-created document. The page says 30 NSA employees, called "ambasadorzy", will first test a pilot version of the Asystent Urzędniczy AI, a tool the ministry built to support public administration staff. They will check how it handles summarising and comparing documents, generating draft letters, searching for legal provisions, and anonymisation.
On review of the output, the page states: "Każdy dokument stworzony przez AI będzie musiał zostać sprawdzony i zatwierdzony przez sędziego". In English, as our translation: every document created by AI will have to be checked and approved by a judge. The page does not say how that approval is recorded.
What comes after the pilot, and what do the ministry and the NSA each commit to?
A second, dedicated tool, built on the pilot's results. The page says the Asystent AI Sędziego Sądu Administracyjnego is to be designed for the work of a judge and a judge's assistant and is to cover functions tied directly to adjudication ("orzekanie") and case-file handling ("obsługa akt spraw"). The page sets no date for it and does not describe its functions further.
On commitments, the page says the ministry will give the NSA and the other administrative courts access to later versions of the Asystent Urzędniczy AI and support in deploying the PLLuM model. For its part, the NSA will give NASK (the Scientific and Academic Computer Network) rulings from the Central Database of Administrative Court Rulings, solely to improve the AI tools. The page does not say how many rulings, in what form, or under what safeguards.
What should litigators, court technology vendors and legal operations teams do now?
Treat this as an early signal about one court's direction, and plan only around what the page states. The page does not address filings by parties or counsel, procurement, or the use of AI by judges outside the pilot.
- Litigators: do not assume any change to filing or disclosure practice before administrative courts. The page announces none.
- Vendors: note that the ministry says its own tool and the PLLuM model are the starting point, and that the page announces no tender or procurement.
- Judiciary and legal operations teams: record that the safeguard stated is judge approval of every AI-created document, and ask what logging supports it.
- Everyone: watch the ministry's news page for the pilot start date and results, since the page gives neither.
What are the key dates and parties?
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Page and signing announcement | 20 October 2026 (page date) |
| Parties | Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji and the Naczelny Sąd Administracyjny |
| Pilot participants | 30 NSA employees ("ambasadorzy") |
| Pilot tasks | Summarising and comparing documents, draft letters, searching legal provisions, anonymisation |
| Pilot start, end or duration | Not stated in the source |
| Dedicated judge assistant | To be built after the pilot; no date stated |
| Compliance deadline | None stated. No binding rule is announced |
FAQ
Is the letter of intent a binding rule for Polish administrative courts?
The announcement establishes no binding court rule. It is a letter of intent and the ministry describes a pilot; the letter's legal effect was not verified. The page does not cite a statute or court rule, and it describes the cooperation as voluntary and transparent.
Who checks what the AI assistant produces?
The ministry's page says every document created by AI will have to be checked and approved by a judge. It adds that the tool is meant to make tasks easier and that a person stands at the end of every process, in the words of Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski.
What will the 30 NSA staff test?
The page says they will test a pilot version of the ministry's Asystent Urzędniczy AI on summarising and comparing documents, generating draft letters, searching for legal provisions and anonymisation.
Will the assistant decide cases?
The page does not say so. It says a later, dedicated Asystent AI Sędziego Sądu Administracyjnego is to cover functions tied directly to adjudication and case-file handling, and it gives no date or design for that tool.
What happens to court rulings under the cooperation?
The page says the NSA will make rulings from the Central Database of Administrative Court Rulings (CBOSA) available to NASK solely to improve AI tools. It does not describe the format, volume or safeguards.
What we did not verify
What we opened: the full ministry news page at gov.pl, dated 20.10.2026, in Polish, on 25 October 2026 UTC.
What we did not open: the letter of intent itself, the Asystent Urzędniczy AI product or its terms, the AI Hub Poland page the ministry links, any NSA statement, any court rule on AI use by judges, and any pilot results. The date is the page date.
What we refuse to claim: that the letter creates legal duties, that any pilot has started, that the assistant will make or draft decisions, that the NSA ruling data has been transferred, or anything about the judge-approval step beyond the sentence quoted above.
The ministry's page reports a letter of intent and a pilot of an AI assistant with 30 NSA staff. Its stated safeguard is that a judge will have to check and approve every AI-created document. Plan around that sentence, and treat the rest as an announced intention with no dates.
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Source File
Secondary: None relied on for the facts above.
Last checked: 2026-10-25 (UTC)
Status: Letter of intent and announced pilot; no binding court rule announced, legal effect of the letter not verified.
Editorial note: Informational analysis for working professionals, not legal advice. Confirm how any rule applies to your situation with qualified counsel.
Informational analysis for working professionals, not legal advice. Confirm how any rule applies to your situation with qualified counsel.
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