Overview
- Chief Justice Surya Kant said on Wednesday, Aug 26, at a bilateral meeting in Germany that AI may augment judicial reasoning but cannot substitute judicial conscience.
- The Supreme Court’s AI Committee has drafted rules that allow AI for scheduling, transcription, translation and research but bar it from assessing witness credibility, flight risk, recidivism or bail eligibility.
- A proposal for a permanent apex oversight body to supervise AI adoption and ensure accountability in the judiciary has been put forward and is under consideration.
- India is already using tools such as SUPACE and LegRAA for legal research, SUVAS to translate judgments into 16 languages and SuSahay as a citizen-facing interface for case information.
- The CJI urged structured cooperation with Germany, including designated points of contact and a possible MoU to share practices on court digitalisation, AI governance and cross-border commercial mediation.