The Supreme Court is using AI and ML to manage cases and transcribe hearings, not to make decisions. Law Minister confirms AI won’t be used for judgments or legal predictions.
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India is now using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) tools to make court work faster and more efficient. But these technologies are not being used to make decisions, pass judgments, or give court orders.
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This was clearly said by Union Minister of Law and Justice, Arjun Ram Meghwal, in a recent answer in the Parliament.
“As per the information provided by the Supreme Court of India, no AI and ML based tools are being used by the Supreme Court of India in the decision-making processes, as of now,”
-the minister said in his response.
Right now, the Supreme Court is using AI and ML only for helping in case management, not for giving final decisions. One main use is to help type out what lawyers say during Constitution Bench hearings. This is called AI-assisted transcription.
These written versions of spoken arguments can now be found on the official website of the Supreme Court. The court also plans to start this service on regular hearing days, especially on Thursdays.
“Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) based tools are being deployed in case management. They are being used in transcribing of oral arguments in Constitution Bench matters. The AI assisted transcribed arguments can be accessed from the website of the Supreme Court. The competent authority has directed to consider the transcribing of oral arguments on regular hearing days i.e. Thursdays,”
-the response explained.
The Supreme Court is also using AI tools to translate court judgments from English to 18 Indian languages, like Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and others. This is to help more people understand court decisions in their own local languages.
This translation project is being done with help from the National Informatics Centre (NIC). The translated judgments can be easily found on the eSCR portal (electronic Supreme Court Reports), which is open for all people.
In addition, the government mentioned a special AI project called SUPACE (Supreme Court Portal for Assistance in Court Efficiency). This tool is made to study case details and find important previous judgments (precedents). But for now, this tool is still being tested, and it will be used properly only after the court gets advanced hardware, like graphic processing units (GPUs) and tensor processing units (TPUs).
The Supreme Court is also working with IIT Madras to test AI and ML tools that can find mistakes in legal documents submitted to the court. A trial version of this tool has already been shared with 200 Advocates-on-Record to take their suggestions and improve it.
The main goal of this is to make court processes faster and help more people get justice.
At the end, the Law Minister clearly said that the Supreme Court has no plans to use AI for legal research or for predicting case outcomes.
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