The Supreme Court on Friday said judges are very conscious about the risks emanating from the indiscriminate use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in judicial work and would not let robotic systems take over the judicial administration process in the country.
“We are very conscious, in fact, over conscious. We do not want Artificial Intelligence overpower the judicial administration process,” Chief Justice of India Surya Kant observed.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Kartikeya Rawal, represented by senior advocate Anupam Lal Das and advocate Abhinav Shrivastava, about the dangers of GenAI, which could even create “hallucinations”, resulting in fictitious judgments, research material and, worse still, work to perpetuate bias.
Allowing the petitioner to withdraw the plea, the court said Mr. Rawal was free to approach the court on the administrative side with suggestions.
When Mr. Das submitted that there were lower court decisions citing non-existent Supreme Court judgments, the CJI said “let that be a lesson to the Bar to verify everything they research on. The judicial officers also have an equal responsibility to verify”. The CJI said judicial officers’ training camps were addressing the problems caused by the advent of AI in the legal field.
